How to know external IP address from Linux terminal?
19 Jul 2014ifconfig displays only local ip address of your system. If your system is directly connected to internet then it will be your external ip address. It may not be the case always. Because you will be behind a router or a modem.
You can know the external IP address by going to www.whatismyip.com or www.ipecho.net. If you want to know it from a terminal type
curl curlmyip.com
What curl do is it fetches the content of the link to the terminal. There are also several other websites that offers this same service. Some of them are listed below.
curl ipecho.net/plain
curl myexternalip.com/raw
curl curlmyip.com
curl ifconfig.me/ip
curl icanhazip.com
curl ip.appspot.com
You can know the external IP address by going to www.whatismyip.com or www.ipecho.net. If you want to know it from a terminal type
curl curlmyip.com
What curl do is it fetches the content of the link to the terminal. There are also several other websites that offers this same service. Some of them are listed below.
curl ipecho.net/plain
curl myexternalip.com/raw
curl curlmyip.com
curl ifconfig.me/ip
curl icanhazip.com
curl ip.appspot.com