Finding Your Public IP

[Wardofsky]

There are a few apps there reveal your local IP, but because I use airport, every computer starts with 10.0.1.X.

I need to find out the public IP which is the one your internet provider gives you, and because mine is not static, I need to check it.

There is a script which is designed for Acquisition which checks all the Gnutella ports, it tells me the public port but I want something simpler.
I know you can check it in System Profiler, but once again, I want something simpler.

I would write a script but I don't know how to.

Anyone?

[Nermal]

You could always have a quick visit to checkip.dyndns.org.

[arn]

Originally posted by Wardofsky
There are a few apps there reveal your local IP, but because I use airport, every computer starts with 10.0.1.X.

I need to find out the public IP which is the one your internet provider gives you, and because mine is not static, I need to check it.

Anyone?

http://www.whatismyip.com/

arn

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by Nermal
You could always have a quick visit to checkip.dyndns.org.

Originally posted by arn
http://www.whatismyip.com/

arn

Thanks for that guys.

[Nermal]

Originally posted by arn
http://www.whatismyip.com/

arn

I've found that whatismyip.com doesn't always work - if I go there I get the IP of my ISP rather than my own. I'm on a static so don't have to worry though.

[Wardofsky]

Originally posted by Nermal
I've found that whatismyip.com doesn't always work - if I go there I get the IP of my ISP rather than my own. I'm on a static so don't have to worry though.

Works for me, I need an app, anyone?

[Wes]

Well for a start, let's support fellow mac users. http://whatsmyip.org/

(Runs on os X server)

Now for the app, I could only find this one, and it seems highly likely that it will show your local ip, give it a try though.

http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/IPinmenubar.html

[Schiffi]

http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation

[5300cs]

How about under System Preferences > Sharing .. when selecting Personal File Sharing at the bottom it says "Other Macintosh users can acces your computer at afp://my IP address ..I'm on dialup and it always shows my current IP. Have you tried that?

[5300cs]

Sorry to post 2x in a row, here's a screenshot...

[Kwyjibo]

good tip but that only works on computers not on a netowrk or not sharing an internet connection because if your behind a router, dhcp probably assigns you a new IP for that kidn of stuff.

[5300cs]

Am I'm missing something then? My TiBook is connected to the internet, then I turn on Internet Connection Sharing. The internal IP is 192.168.0.9, which I put in for router address on all the other machines, I also give all the other machine unique IPs (I don't use DHCP.) They all share the connection perfectly.

[Nermal]

Originally posted by Schiffi
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation

It's kinda scary how much info they can get from your IP. It tells me with 89% certainty that I'm in Wellington, New Zealand. I happen to be in the other 11% (Wellington's hundreds of km away), but my ISP's in Wellington which explains where it picked that up from.