How to find public ip for a freebsd system

Question

Can someone tell me a command that will find my external ip for a freebsd 10 system.

What do you mean with external IP? Is your system connected to the internet directly without ppp or a router? — Anthon, Dec 24 '14 at 19:09

terdon · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-30T23:02:47.937

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Personally, I use wtfismyip.com which returns pure text and does not need parsing:

$ wget -qO - http://wtfismyip.com/text
123.456.78.9

User Steve Wills pointed out in a comment that the command fetch is installed by default on FreeBSD so it might be a better choice instead of wget.

edited Sep 30 '17 at 23:02

answered Dec 24 '14 at 17:31

terdon

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The fetch command is part of the OS, unlike wget, so it's always there, might be better to use it. – Steve Wills Jan 05 '15 at 02:36
fetch -q http://wtfismyip.com/text ; cat ./text; – user77115 Oct 16 '18 at 11:48

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 24 '14 at 17:05

Try from the CLI

 wget checkip.dyndns.org:80 -O - -o /dev/null | cut -d" " -f6 | sed 's/<\/body><\/html>//'

or

 wget 216.146.39.70:80 -O - -o /dev/null | cut -d" " -f6 | sed 's/<\/body><\/html>//'

if you do not wish to call the DNSs.

You can always load the following URL, www.whatismyipaddress.com in your browser; this is but one of many different sites returning your IP, among them is also speedtest.net.

How to find public ip for a freebsd system

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