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Re: How do I use curl to find out the public IP address of my Linux server within my internal LAN network?

From: Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:46:23 +0800

Dear Daniel Stenberg,

Noted with thanks.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore
22 Jan 2022 Saturday


On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 at 19:54, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via curl-users wrote:
>
> > How do I use curl to find out the public IP address of my Linux server
> > within my internal LAN network?
>
> curl cannot show you that. In fact, your "Linux server" on your LAN usually
> doesn't have any "public address" at all. You typically go through a
> NAT/router to the Internet and that NAT will give you a public address while
> in use, and that public address can be shown by services online such as:
>
> "curl ip.me"
>
> This not really curl showing the address though. It just shows you the content
> that remote service returns.
>
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