silly question: howto find Wan ip

Davno · 04-25-2004, 08:53 PM

How to find my Wan IP in a shell (konsole), ifconfig shows only my Lan ip, and my router firmware use some html that dont show well in my browser.
Thxs

DrOzz · 04-25-2004, 09:36 PM

i personally can't think of a way doing that from command line, but you
can always go to www.whatismyipaddress.com ...

Robert0380 · 04-25-2004, 11:27 PM

here is a sexy lil shell script i wrote (re-wrote...) it uses lynx and whatismyip.com

Code:

#!/bin/bash
                                                                                
lynx -dump http://whatismyip.com | awk '/Your/ {print $4}'

drop that in a file called getip chmod u+x it, and drop it in /usr/local/bin

example:

Code:

robert@decatur robert $ getip
68.xxx.4.xxx
robert@decatur robert $

i just put the x's in to blot out my IP.

Robert0380 · 04-25-2004, 11:29 PM

oh, make sure /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH

bulliver · 04-26-2004, 01:14 AM

Robert0380: That's a sweet little one liner. Thanks.
I'm gonna make it a shell alias.