[GTALUG] Getting external IP

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2018-01-27 06:33 PM, John Sellens via talk wrote:
> On Sat, 2018/01/27 04:45:55PM -0500, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> | On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 03:03:56PM -0500, Don Tai wrote:
> | > dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
> |
> | This I like, even though it only applies for OpenDNS.
> 
> I think it's general purpose - I believe it replies with
> your source address - no previous record in opendns needed.

You could put a simple PHP file on an external webserver you control that 
will return the IP address.

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