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I know that a lot of VPN users have it as a homepage to their browser, that is why I wanted to publish this warning.

You can replace it with:

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[–] kmirl@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

For us Linux users (BTW), this wtfismyip script just dumps a text string. Just save it to /usr/local/bin or some other location in your path and make it executable, and install the lynx text www browser if you don't have it installed already.

There are a lot of ways to do this, but this works and I'm lazy...

root@tux:~# cat $(which wtfismyip)
#!/bin/bash

printf "%s\n" "Your fucking IP address is $(lynx -dump -nolist http://wtfismyip.com/text)."
root@tux:~# wtfismyip
Your fucking IP address is 13.107.226.41.
[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago
[–] trk@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I use thiscomputer.info

It's just text. It shows a bit more than just your IP. And it's easy to remember.

[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

IP chicken is another option

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 18 points 22 hours ago
[–] AnalogHole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago

Am.i.mullvad.net

[–] attero@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 19 hours ago
[–] Una@europe.pub 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Glad somebody else posted it. Glad it still exists. Some of the internet is still hilarious and amazing.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There is also ifconfig.me which works amazingly on the command like with curl ifconfig.me

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

At that point just run ifconfig

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago

That won't tell you the public IP unless you're on a directly-connected machine

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

exept it does? At least in ipv6 land

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

i could see a situation where a host that only speaks IPv4 would need to add my IP to an allow list, and therefore I would need to check what IPv4 address I appear as, even though I am running IPv6.

[–] eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The same works with ipinfo.io, it's what I usually use.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 13 hours ago

Awesome, good to know. Nice it has more info in a JSON blob.

[–] AverageEarthling@feddit.online 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the one true answer.

Just an IP, nothing else. And easily curlable.

[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] s08nlql9@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Was expecting a robotic voice, is this AI?

[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It exists before AI was a thing. Just a dude recording himself and making a software that plays it relatively smoothly.

The domain was registered in 2012

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[–] binom@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)
[–] Raptor_007@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a good old service, but unfortunately it's so old that it doesn't support IPv6 connections

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago

I just checked with curl and it showed me my IPv6 IP

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago
[–] iglou@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago

https://httpbin.org/ip

Httpbin has a bunch of other useful endpoints as well

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

I wrote my own. It's one of the easiest possible services to write.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

i usually use icanhazip.com, seems to work well enough

[–] heydo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is it malicious code hosted on the website? Or are they saying that visiting that site is an indicator of compromise because they've malware commonly visiting that site?

[–] asqapro@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Looks like the domain registration expired, according to https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup

Fortinet marked the website as "malicious", but it doesn't seem to give an explanation as to why it's been given that classification (looked up here: https://www.fortiguard.com/webfilter)

Kasperky wanted an account (and possibly a subscription) to look up the website and I'm not going to give them any of my information so I'm not sure if they gave an explanation as to why the website is flagged.

Visiting https://thisismyip.com/ as of now just redirects to a Namecheap landing page so I doubt there's any actual malware on the website. I think Fortinet and Kaspersky preemptively marked it for when a malicious actor picks up the name and starts hosting actual viruses.

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[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I always use check.torproject.org. If I'm not on Tor, it gives me my IP, if I am on Tor it verifies that. Good for both.

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

We have a little one, in case it's useful. https://ip.brightfur.net/ Super simple. Works with curl too (autodetects whether to give you plain text or an HTML webpage).

It's like 20 lines of PHP and most of that's HTML.

-- Frost

There's also https://ip4.me/, nice and simple ipv4 test.

(it also does other IP lookups via https://ip6.me/, https://ip6only.me/, https://whatismyv6.com/)

You can just search ip on ddg and it'll show you

[–] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

dnsleaktest.com

ipleak.net

Check your IP and your DNS, all in one.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago
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