how do i find my PROPER ip address

big_moe

im trying to find out my proper ip address.

when i go nto the network pref pane, it says ip address as 10.0.1.200, but i know this is the one given by the airport extreme as a local thingy...

when i go to http://www.ip-adress.com/ it says my ip as it is really is. 89.100.x.x

how do i find out my ip address using terminal??

cheers
moe

Sad Professor

You mean your internet ip address? The one reported by ip-address.com would be correct. I'm don't think you can find that out via terminal. Your modem/router page will have it also. The 10.0.1.* is your computer ip.

big_moe

ah right... clears that up so!!

cheers prof

Creamy Goodness

#!/bin/sh

URLS[0]="http://checkip.dyndns.org"
URLS[1]="http://whatismyip.com"
URLS[2]="http://www.whatismyipaddress.com"
URLS[3]="http://ipid.shat.net"
URLS[4]="http://www.edpsciences.com/htbin/ipaddress"
URLS[5]="http://www.showmyip.com"

for URL in ${URLS[@]}
do
       THIS=${URL}
       IP=`curl -s "${THIS}" | tr -cs '[0-9\.]' '\012' \
               | awk -F'.' 'NF==4 && $1>0 && $1<256 && $2<256 && $3<256 && $4<256 && !/\.\./' | uniq`
       if [ $? == 0 ]; then
               IP=`echo $IP | awk '{print $1}'`
               echo "your IP Address is: $IP"
               exit
       fi
done

open up terminal and type these commands

nano IP.sh
>>copy and paste code above into nano. save by hitting control+X hit y to confirm filename<<
chmod 777 IP.sh
./IP.sh

it will output you external web ip address

and from now on all you have to type is ./IP.sh

ZENER

There are plenty of widgets that will do this too, just search the Apple widgets page at apple.ie.

ZEN

Rollo Tamasi

They're are plenty of websites too, such as What is my IP?

Creamy Goodness

ZENER wrote:

There are plenty of widgets that will do this too, just search the Apple widgets page at apple.ie.

ZEN

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

They're are plenty of websites too, such as What is my IP?

yes, but he asked for a way find it using the Terminal.

big_moe

i didnt know there were widgets to do it. i assumed i'd have to use terminal as on windows you have to use command prompt.

cheers everyone

Roen

ifconfig -a | grep en0 (if wired) should do it for you, or you could just do an ifconfig and oggle what pops up.

440Hz

yup i was gonna suggest ifconfig as well, nice one Roen, oh and welcome to the forum kind Sir, its about time too!

Rollo Tamasi

Cremo wrote:

yes, but he asked for a way find it using the Terminal.

oh, didn't notice that.

Creamy Goodness

ahh it's grand i only mentioned it as i thought it might of been part of a bigger plan where you could pipe the output of the shell program into another.