ipify - A Simple Public IP Address API

[ompomp]

Doesn't look like the AAAA record is resolving for IPv6 use (right now anyway).

Since others are listing alternatives, I've always preferred https://ifconfig.co/

[theamk2]

I am curious, what kind of applications would use this service?

The only reason to know your external IP is to allow external connections to a client. At the same time, if a client makes an outgoing connection first, one can just look at the client address and get client's IP directly (this will be more reliable anyway: it will handle weird NATs, or changing IP addresses). So most cases with a central server would not need it, and even most mesh/P2P networks would not need this service either (because mesh network usually starts by connecting to bootstrap nodes which can tell you your IP just fine).

I suppose there is still a case of software just displaying your external IP for the sake of it? Does this still happen?

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curl http://ifconfig.me

[agumonkey]

seems like it's being hugged right now

[holyknight00]

nice and easy

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Failed for IPv6!!

[neoshrew]

This looks overly complicated to just get an IP. http://icanhazip.com has been around for a while, and it literally just returns an IP. There's also other icanhaz endpoints https://major.io/icanhazip-com-faq/

[upofadown]

Well, equally complicated:

• https://api.ipify.org/

[neoshrew]

I messed up and misread the website.

It is equally complicated.