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A New Future for Icanhazip

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980 points nkcmr | 4 comments | 06 Jun 21 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.817s | source
1. forrestthewoods ◴[06 Jun 21 21:08 UTC] No.27416344[source]▶
> The site went from 1B requests per day to 30-35B requests per day over a weekend.

This is absolutely mind blowing.

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2. jayonsoftware ◴[06 Jun 21 21:43 UTC] No.27416614[source]▶
I always type "what is my ip" in google and get a reply. I am amazed that this service gets 30B to 35B hits a day
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3. aembleton ◴[06 Jun 21 22:52 UTC] No.27417084[source]▶
It will be bots using it. I have a python script that calls it every 5 minutes to get my current IP so that I can update my DNS records on Cloudflare. This is because my server is self hosted on a Pi and I don't have a static IP.
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4. bombcar ◴[07 Jun 21 02:01 UTC] No.27418197{3}[source]▶
It’s too bad there’s not a simpler way to just ask your router what it’s external IP is or if it has changed. You’d think SNMP could do it.