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A handy way to know your public IP Address with DNS servers

Aditya Thebe on March 20, 2020

Originally written in : adityathebe.com There are plenty websites that show you your public IP address when you visit them. The simplest way wou...
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Maximilian Burszley • • Edited

If on Windows, you can use PowerShell to execute these same commands, e.g.:

# get site entries
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://api.ipify.org

# get dns entries
Resolve-DnsName -Name myip.opendns.com -Server resolver1.opendns.com
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Le Anh Duc •

My favorite way

curl ifconfig.io
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Sri ganesh •

Hey, I made something similar recently which I hope is easy to remember.

$ curl ipaddress.sh
151.101.2.217

More info: about.ipaddress.sh

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Aleksandr Hovhannisyan •

You can also do what I do and Google:

my ip

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Aditya Thebe •

Sure that's convenient but I was mainly focusing on scripting purposes.

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M15terHyde •

this method, unless you're using quic, runs over tcp so it requires setting up a tcp connection. dns runs over udp so it can be faster since there is no connection setup.