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chaosmachine
http://whatismyip.org/

A bit easier to spell/remember.

shizcakes
Usually those services tell you your public IP.

This service says my IP is 10.1.3.46, and while technically correct, useless.

joss82
How can it give you your private IP address? I'm curious...

Is there a javascript call to list the IP addresses of any machine? That feels very insecure to me.

EDIT: Sorry I forgot to turn on my joke detector.

henrikschroder
Uh, no? Knowing your public IP is valuable information sometimes and you need an external source to tell you that. Knowing your machine's IP is not something you should go to a website to look up, just check your local config.
denisu
Thanks for the feedback, it should now display the correct HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR-header if available.
warfangle
Given that it's a .jp subdomain, it's likely geared towards Japanese. Denisu is a valid shortening of DNS - the characters to spell it in katakana would be デニス, and potentially easier to remember for Japanese than "whatismyip," a fully qualified english query. Unless someone out there who knows more about Japanese than I do (admittedly, very little) can confirm that デニス or でにす is an actual word (google translate detected でにす as a phrase, giving me "su to the," which makes sense grammatically..)

Funny enough, it's also the romanjification of "dennis" (one of the first hits on google for it is dennis rodman's japanese wikipedia article).

eli
Or just paste this in a .php file:

<?php print $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>

Then you've got the IP address without any frills.

cookiecaper
I've always been partial to http://ipchicken.com . It's got commercial motives, but it's easy to spell, it's easy to ask people to go to it and have them remember, and the numbers are giant and readable. This is all good!
ralphc
For you minimalists: http://checkip.dyndns.org/
webignition
The full response of which being:

<html><head><title>Current IP Check</title></head><body>Current IP Address: xx.xx.xx.xx</body></html>

That's surely not minimal. What you need is a simple plain-text: xx.xx.xx.xx.

kordless
or even better, an easy-to-parse key value pair:

ip=208.128.7.7

weavejester
I'd contend that "208.128.7.7" is a more minimal, and useful, return value than "ip=208.128.7.7".
tfh
"ip=208.128.7.7" would be actually nice if the output would be like:

  ip=208.128.7.7
  location=france
  ua=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel blah blah
kordless
Yes, I agree, especially for shell scripts and such. A service should give me 1) plain text, 2) key value pairs, 3) json, and 4) human readable/copyable output.