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Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address”

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224 points gurjeet | 6 comments | 30 Mar 21 08:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.422s | source | bottom
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SXX ◴[30 Mar 21 13:17 UTC] No.26634229[source]▶
If someone want non-rate-limted IP info here is:

https://lumtest.com/myip.json

https://lumtest.com/echo.json

It's powered by largest residential proxy network so they almost certainly never gonna ban your IP.

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1. koolba ◴[30 Mar 21 13:56 UTC] No.26634646[source]▶
What is a residential proxy network?
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2. paxo ◴[30 Mar 21 14:23 UTC] No.26634920[source]▶
yeah that seems interesting
3. judge2020 ◴[30 Mar 21 14:29 UTC] No.26634991[source]▶

  $ whois 52.202.152.73
  OrgName:        Amazon Technologies Inc.
I guess Amazon? Would be funny if this actually ran over Amazon Sidewalk but I doubt that.
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4. GoblinSlayer ◴[30 Mar 21 14:34 UTC] No.26635048[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminati
5. weird-eye-issue ◴[30 Mar 21 17:44 UTC] No.26637765[source]▶
You are looking at the IP of lumtest.com not the service behind it which is what the OP was referring to.
6. duskwuff ◴[30 Mar 21 18:37 UTC] No.26638520[source]▶
A wretched hive of scum and villainy.

But seriously, it's basically a front end to a bunch of people who have been incentivized (or fooled) into installing a proxy server on their home computers. It's primarily of interest as a way to make certain types of fraud (like ad fraud and credit card fraud) much harder to detect.