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

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224 points gurjeet | 1 comments | 30 Mar 21 08:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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rnhmjoj ◴[30 Mar 21 18:13 UTC] No.26638168[source]▶
I wonder how much more it will take before the answer to "What is my IP address?" will simply be "Look in the settings" or "Just type ip addr in the terminal".

We are so used to NAT that we don't realize how crazy it is that you essentially have to ask a stranger what's your address. It's really difficult to explain this to someone with no networking knowledge. Nothing else works this way: phone numbers, emails or postal addresses.

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marcosscriven ◴[30 Mar 21 19:14 UTC] No.26639036[source]▶
You don’t really have to ask a stranger - you can ask your router, in a similar way you can check the door number on your street.
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1. tenacious_tuna ◴[30 Mar 21 21:05 UTC] No.26640496[source]▶
I'm NAT'd, though with an external IP, so the IP my router sees is not the same as what the world sees--while my ISP did provide me this information in an email, it's much faster for me to ask Google or whatnot than to dig the email up.