Comments on: What is my IP Address? How do I get my external IP Address in Mac OS X?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 07:55:15 +0000

Yes and no. Take a typical home or small office set up. You have a router doing NAT with a single public IP. In most instances this is the IP which will be reported by whatismyip.org. Yes, if you are using a proxy, or have some other complexities, the IP reported might not be the Public IP of your router.

If you run ifconfig on a device which is on a NATted LAN (the most common home, small office set up), then you will ONLY get your LAN IPs. Which probably not what you want.

So, yeah, it might not give you the address you need, but ifconfig is even less likely to give you that info in most circumstances.

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By: tejji

tejji — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:29:34 +0000

and the simple way is here - what is my ip address

By: Carney

Carney — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:13:00 +0000

I must say i started loving your blog, so here you got my first comment. i”ll keep bugging you. hope you won’t mind

By: Adi

Adi — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:13:55 +0000

or just use whatsmyip.net

By: Imulus

Imulus — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:05:35 +0000

You could also visit a browser support website such as Support Details (http://supportdetails.com). You can even send your system details to someone else directly within the interface.

By: marc

marc — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:31:41 +0000

feh… it is not reporting *your* ip address, it is reporting the address used to access the site which may be that of a proxy, a router, or some other NAT device. Depending upon your network setup it could be the address of some device at your isp.

If you want to see what addresses are actually in use by your machine and have a terminal window open use this pipeline:

ifconfig | grep inet

which will get you both ip (inet) and ipv6 (inet6) addresses that are in use by your machine. I have two interfaces in use on my machine and use inet6 in addition to inet. My addresses are:

inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0×1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 fe80::21e:c2ff:fe15:f0f6%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0×4
inet6 2001:5a8:4:910:21e:c2ff:fe15:f0f6 prefixlen 64 autoconf
inet 208.201.244.209 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 208.201.244.255
inet6 fe80::21e:c2ff:fea3:2733%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0×6
inet 192.168.168.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.168.255
inet6 2001:5a8:4:911:21e:c2ff:fea3:2733 prefixlen 64 autoconf

::1 and 127.0.0.1 are loopback addresses used by all machines.
fe80:… are internal ipv6 addresses

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:23:05 +0000

Ha… It returned this result:

Banned

You have been banned from this page.
We’ve put measures in place to keep people from hitting our site at an unreasonable rate.
We ask that you only hit our site once per every 5 minutes to get your IP address.
Our system must’ve detected overuse by you and therefore banned you.
Are you running an automated script to get your IP?
Once we figure out what caused the ban and get that fixed, we’ll unban you.
Send questions to banned2 at whatismyip dot com.

Please set your code to scrape your IP from http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp

By: Dale

Dale — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:10:21 +0000

If you have the luxury of installing on the machine you are using, try the IP Widget. http://cip.physik.uni-bonn.de/~maahn/ip.html