[oclug] How to verify my IP address remotely

Jack yaki at sympatico.ca
Fri Jul 11 20:37:23 EDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:14, Joe Burpee wrote:

> Given the previous suggestions, I think you can get the external IP
> address using:
> 
> wget -O - http://www.whatismyip.com/ 2>/dev/null |                       
> awk '/<TITLE>Your ip is/{print $4}'
> 

Now I'm *really* impressed. That actually works! Sir, you really know
your Unix/Linux. Kudos.

Jack Gambino





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