retrieve your remote IPaddress from the commandline

There are many websites that offer a service to view you remote ip-address, like for example my.ip or myip.org

But what if you don't want to use your browser? Wouldn't it be nice if you could just ask for your remote ip-address from the commandline? What you would need is a remote server that sends you your ip.

This can easily be done in php:

<?php
#shows remote ip adres.
# use HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR in case of of rev.proxy
#$a = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
$a = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

echo $a;
?>

You can simply point your browser to this script on your server and it will show your ip. My script is located at www.lxer.nl/ip.php

But you don't want to use a browser, you want to use the commandline. Using Python is probably the easiest way to script this:

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib

# Get a file-like object
f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.lxer.nl/ip.php")
# Read from the object, storing the page's contents in 's'.
s = f.read()

print s
f.close()

Damn simple... :)

Now name this script for example 'ipremote' and put it in /usr/bin. Make sure it is executable (chmod 775), and you can simply use:

$~> lx@zxz:~$ ipremote
194.109.238.xx