how to find out my external IP

Kommi · October 23, 2003, 8:13pm

how can I find out my extenal IP. I have 2 pcs that are connected to a router which is connected to a cable modem. ipconfig will only show me the internal IP’s.

swpalmer · October 23, 2003, 9:12pm

There are several online services that will do this for you.

try

http://whatismyip.com/

(in the future ask google first.)

cfmdobbie · October 24, 2003, 7:21am

If you want to discover this from code, you may find the CheckIP service from DynDNS much easier to parse:

http://checkip.dyndns.org/

Herkules · October 24, 2003, 8:24am

… and both services deliver completely different results…

cfmdobbie · October 24, 2003, 10:35am

Not for me! ;D

How are you connected to the Internet? I’d guess your ISP is doing something funky.

Herkules · October 24, 2003, 12:33pm

I really don’t know … bigger company…

IPs are:

dyndns: 10.3.32.79
whatismyip: 194.55.222.158

Quite different, eh?

tortoise · October 25, 2003, 1:26am

Interesting. 10.3.32.79 is a private IP address and is not supposed to work its way out onto the internet. The 10 address is likely your real IP (type ifconfig or ipconfig to confirm), and the 194 address is the IP of whatever computer is fetching stuff off the internet for you.