3 homepage: https://webinstall.dev/myip
5 My IP answers the question "what's my IP address?"
16 `myip` will contact ipify.org to tell you your IP addresses:
18 1. `api.ipify.org` for your IPv4 or A address
19 2. `api6.ipify.org` for your IPv6 or AAAA address
24 IPv4 (A) : 136.36.196.101
25 IPv6 (AAAA): 2605:a601:a919:9800:f8be:f2c4:9ad7:9763
28 ### What is an IP address?
30 An IP or Internet Protocol address is basically the phone number of your
33 Whenever you visit a domain - such as https://google.com - the `google.com` part
34 is _resolved_ to the IP address using, quite literally, the internet's Contacts
37 ### How to get your IP address?
39 Due to how complex networking can be, the most reliable way to get your IP
40 address is basically to "make a call" to another server and ask it to tell you
41 what shows up on the "called id", as it were.
43 _IPify_ is such a service.
45 You likely have an IPv4 or A address as well as an IPv6 or AAAA address.
47 To find out your IPv4 or A address:
50 curl -s https://api.ipify.org
53 To find out your IPv6 or AAAA address:
56 curl -s https://api6.ipify.org
59 To find out either address:
62 curl -s https://api46.ipify.org
65 You can also use the `ifconfig`, `ip`, or `ipconfig` commands to figure this
66 out, but they may give you incorrect information if the network setup is complex
67 (as is the case... most of the time - home and business networks, cloud