Simple way to find external IP from command line

[ZenTree]

Stumbled across this which could come in handy for certain situations:

nslookup myip.opendns.com resolver1.opendns.com

"It uses resolver1.opendns.com dns server to resolve the magical myip.opendns.com hostname toyour ip address."

Hopefully it helps someone else as well.

 

[HankArnold]

When I run it, I get a Google search window.

 

[ZenTree]

When I run it, I get a Google search window.

It should be run from the command line.

 

[Markverhyden]

Stumbled across this which could come in handy for certain situations:

nslookup myip.opendns.com resolver1.opendns.com

"It uses resolver1.opendns.com dns server to resolve the magical myip.opendns.com hostname toyour ip address."

Hopefully it helps someone else as well.

Thanks, awesome. And it bypasses any browser mumbo jumbo, as well as works in all OS's. Now I just have to practice it a bunch so it stays at the top of the memory heap.

 

[seedubya]

Stumbled across this which could come in handy for certain situations:

nslookup myip.opendns.com resolver1.opendns.com

"It uses resolver1.opendns.com dns server to resolve the magical myip.opendns.com hostname toyour ip address."

Hopefully it helps someone else as well.

Thanks loads for this, really handy!

 

[Eagle21]

Another command line method to display your external IP address is:
curl ifconfig.co

 

[HankArnold]

It should be run from the command line.

Duh! :-( It works! Great tip. Thanks.

 

[ZenTree]

Another command line method to display your external IP address is:
curl ifconfig.co

Yeah I've seen a lot of references to curl recently but it's something you need to install on the system, whereas like Mark pointed out this should work on any native system. You can change the nslookup to dig for linux and I believe it should work there too.

 

[Eagle21]

Yeah I've seen a lot of references to curl recently but it's something you need to install on the system, whereas like Mark pointed out this should work on any native system. You can change the nslookup to dig for linux and I believe it should work there too.

I use Linux, so it works fine on my "native system". I forgot that Windows has very limited command line options. I don't think Windows includes a command line http client.

nslookup works on Linux too. Microsoft probably copied it from Unix.

The "myip" method is a bit cute, or magical. It extends (or corrupts) DNS to get it to do something it was not designed to do.

 

[HFultzjr]

I just made a small .bat file to put in my "Tools".

Thanks.

 

[TenYardFight]

Love it!

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[frase]

Very nice thanks

 

[RocklandCompRepair]

I open Google and type "My IP." Doesn't get much easier than that

 

[glennd]

I open Google and type "My IP." Doesn't get much easier than that

ok, how long has that been there??

 

[RocklandCompRepair]

ok, how long has that been there??

Hahaha! Not sure, but I've been using that for a long time. Google has tons of neat tools you can use just by typing certain keywords in a search....

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/google-search-fun/

 

[Markverhyden]

I open Google and type "My IP." Doesn't get much easier than that

That works fine. If you can open a browser.

 

[Moltuae]

I like this!

I decided to expand on the idea a little by creating a small batch file (which makes it particularity useful to add to ScreenConnect's toolbox):

FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%A IN ('nslookup myip.opendns.com resolver1.opendns.com') DO IF "%%A"=="Address:" SET EXTIP=%%B
set /p=%EXTIP%<NUL|clip
msg * /time:5 "The external IP ("%EXTIP%") has been copied to the clipboard."

The batch file extracts just the relevant IP address, copies it to the clipboard then displays a message (for a predefined number of seconds):

 

[ZenTree]

Hahaha! Not sure, but I've been using that for a long time. Google has tons of neat tools you can use just by typing certain keywords in a search....

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/google-search-fun/

Wow tons I didn't know about. Thanks! The google find IP thing is something I use all the time but there are some situations where you can only have background CLI access or want to script something which is where the nslookup command could come in handy.

 

[Roger Magana]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Roger Magana]

I open Google and type "My IP." Doesn't get much easier than that

Not practical but when a web browser is no option it is good to know an alternative. And I have higher trust on OpenDNS than google.