From 4a6b2a85144590b1f757e23aabcf3ef906e530bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tiyn Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:25:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ip: get outside ip now correct --- wiki/linux/ip.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/wiki/linux/ip.md b/wiki/linux/ip.md index b0a0e7b..2a3cd79 100644 --- a/wiki/linux/ip.md +++ b/wiki/linux/ip.md @@ -39,3 +39,8 @@ package - like in Ubuntu - or even another package depending on the distribution used. After installation the following command can be used to get the outside IP address of your system `dig +short txt ch whoami.cloudflare @1.0.0.1`. + +There is an alternative to this using `wget`. +It uses a call to DuckDuckGo and requests the outside IP from there. +The mentioned command is the following +`wget -qqO- 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+my+ip' | grep -Pow 'Your IP address is \K[0-9.]+'`.