what's my IP address?

jjohn on 2003-09-03T11:33:21

Find out here. A simple, yet incredibly useful web page. Perhaps a companion site called "what's my browser?" and "where are my pants?" are soon to follow.

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Where would we be without this?

nicholas on 2003-09-03T12:06:20

How useful. And in case it goes down, here's a handy link to google's cache of it :-)

And who needs version control on config files when the wayback machine can tell me what my IP address used to be.

Re:Where would we be without this?

ethan on 2003-09-03T16:02:49

Haha, this is hilarious! :-)

There seem to be a number of webpages with the sole purpose of telling me my own IP. Here is another one from the google cache.

It's a little bit like Heisenberg.

even handier...

jhi on 2003-09-03T15:32:53

...find out what OS you were running again.

Re:even handier...

nicholas on 2003-09-03T18:15:30

I'm running "Don't know" (or I was earlier).

It doesn't (yet) know about RISC OS. So I score 1 so far. (I think it's fair for anyone else with a RISC OS machine, or any other known don't know, to claim a point, until it officially knows how to identify that OS version). I'm tempted to set my Irix box up to see if it is also a don't know. Sadly I don't have any Crays (which they also say they want)

Who will score the most?

Re:even handier...

jhi on 2003-09-03T18:39:07

I scored one point with an IRIX box that apparently had slightly non-standard settings. Other than that, I seem to be boringly predictable.

whoami

Juerd on 2003-09-03T17:19:46

http://juerd.nl/whoami

Pants Status.

Louis_Wu on 2003-09-03T21:37:45

Perhaps a companion site called "what's my browser?" and "where are my pants?" are soon to follow.

Well, when I can't answer the second question, that's when I reach for my Emergency Pants.

• What are Emergency Pants?
  • They're Sluggy Freelance approved survival equipment.
  
  
  
• How will you know when to use Emergency Pants?
  • It will be rather obvious, just like in this handy instructional cartoon: "This looks like a job for Emergency Pants." (Third strip.)

Hey! That's my proxy!

bart on 2003-09-05T00:42:01

Whether or not it is handy, that is debatable. Whether it works well is another matter. The URL it returns for me is [213.224.83.72]... which appears to be the address off the other side of the proxy server I must use. So it completely ignores the "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR" header, which points towards [213.224.4.165]. Yeah, that is me!

Re:Hey! That's my proxy!

merlyn on 2003-09-05T03:32:06

By design, you must explicitly distrust any "forwarded for" headers, unless they come from an IP that you trust.

So, it's doing exactly the right thing. Giving the address of the only IP that it can trust.

Re:Hey! That's my proxy!

jmm on 2003-09-05T13:52:26

Well, it could do a bit of both: "IP 1.2.3.4 (claims to be forwarding from IP 2.3.4.5)".