On 05/24/2018 03:48 PM, John Conover wrote: > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Rodier writes: >> >> I am looking for a native package on Debian, that can give me the >> external IP address of the machine. >> > > Hi Andre. > > Type "ifconfig" without the quotes. The record you are looking for is > inet addr: for IPV4. Its about the second line from the top. > > John >
ifconfig would only work if you are directly assigned the public, external IP. If you are behind eg. a router that does NAT, you would only see the private IP internal to the local network. I am not aware of any packages in the repos that has this kind of functionality, but you could always just write a simple script around the various sites that report your external ip. It can be as simple as `curl ipinfo.io` (or your preferred site), you could even try to have a script to try a few backups in case your primary site happens to be unreachable.
