Sometimes, you need to know your public IP address because of… reasons. My particular reason was creating firewall rule to limit SSH only from my current public IP address, to a machine on the Internet. And how to do it?
You can always use free services like What Is My IP?, which shows you your public IP address in a nice form:
But there are also other ways – if you’re running Linux (or WSL) and do a Google search for the command that can help you, you’ll probably get this (https://askubuntu.com/questions/95910/command-for-determining-my-public-ip?noredirect=1&lq=1):
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curl -s checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//' |
And if you’re using Windows, PowerShell is here to help you! I like “oneliners”, even if they are not always easy to read:
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($($(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://checkip.dyndns.org").ParsedHtml.getElementsByTagName('body')).innerText).TrimStart("Current IP Address: ") |
I’m sure that my friend Aleksandar (PowerShell guru & Microsoft MVP) has a better way, but for me, this works just fine. 🙂
Hope it helps!
Cheers!