On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 12:36:15 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > "inxi" sounds like a terrible way to programmatically find your IP > address. I would most likely use the "ip" command and any of its > machine-readable output formats.
How would that work? "ip" only know about the IP addresses of the machine it runs on, right? I've got no idea what inxi does or how it would discover the IP address of your external router, unless it's by contacting one of the many web sites that provide such information. > Agreed, dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com is simpler and > much > faster. I didn't know a DNS-based method existed. That's fascinating. > There are many others, e.g. curl ifconfig.me . Yeah, the web-based ones are what I'm familiar with. I've even implemented one at <http://wooledge.org/myip.cgi>. It's incredibly easy; mine's just an sh script. # cat /var/www/wooledge.org/myip.cgi #!/bin/sh echo "Content-type: text/plain" echo echo "$REMOTE_ADDR"
