Get IP

This article list different ways of getting a user's IP address.

Updated: 2017/11/19
Original: 2015/06/07

Polling

Website

Service Features URL
RIPE IPv4/IPv6, plain https://www.ripe.net/@@ipaddress
ARIN IPv4/IPv6, plain https://www.arin.net/simplewebutils/whatsmyip.html
APNIC IPv4/IPv6, json https://cgi1.apnic.net/cgi-bin/my-ip.php
OpenDNS IPv4/IPv6, plain https://diagnostic.opendns.com/myip
DynDNS IPv4, html http://checkip.dyndns.com/
SpeedTest IPv4, xml http://www.speedtest.net/speedtest-config.php
Akamai IPv4, plain http://whatismyip.akamai.com
Akamai IPv6 IPv6, plain http://ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com
Amazon IPv4, plain http://checkip.amazonaws.com/

DNS

Service Resolver Record
OpenDNS resolver1.opendns.com myip.opendns.com
Akamai a6-193.akamaitech.net. whoami.akamai.net

Ask resolver1.opendns.com to resolve myip.opendns.com

On Windows :

nslookup myip.opendns.com resolver1.opendns.com

On Linux :

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

STUN

You can ask a STUN server to provide your external IP address (and the type of your NAT).

Eg.
Using stuntsman :

stunclient.exe stun.stunprotocol.org

WebRTC (in browser)

This will provide an abstraction using RTCPeerConnection.
The browser will check for computer's IP address and ask Mozilla's STUN server

Checking connectivity

It can be useful to determine whether you are behind a captive portal (open public Wi-Fi asking for auth).
Before login, all your requests are usually changed.

Techniques by :

URL :

http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt (IPv4)
http://ipv6.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt (IPv6)
http://clients3.google.com/generate_204