Determining IP addr via script?

[Net Llama!]

This really is a loaded question.  If you're not looking for the IP bound
to your NICs primary interface, then you're getting into all kinds of
other issues, such as NAT, IP-Masq, protocols, and the like.

http://www.whatismyip.com is hardly accurate unless you have a very
simplisitic setup.

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Michael Hipp wrote:

> Anyone know a simple way to determine what your public IP address appears to
> be via a shell script? I can do it with a web browser by going to
> http://www.whatismyip.com .
>
> (BTW, I'm not talking about the IP addr assigned to a NIC and readable by
> ifconfig.)
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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