This may seem odd... but people kept asking for it, so here you go...
On the various programming forums I read, a common question is "how can I find out the IP address of my router"... for whatever reason (and there certainly are a few reasons that I can think of) people were really looking for their IP address on the Internet. In general, the solution was to hit one of a few publically available sites out there that display your IP when you view their web pages and then scrape the IP address back out of the HTML. Simple enough, but I thought I would make it simpler for anyone who needed this solution by creating a quick and simple web service.
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Oliver Sturm said
I'm sure I don't know much (or anything, even :-)) about this type of application, but are there applications where I can't type in a computer name instead of a TCP/IP address? If yes, okay, tell the makers to change that. If not... well, a name is always easier to communicate, doesn't change all the time and the service is ready to use. But maybe I'm missing the point here. Not a problem :-)
Duncan Mackenzie said
Oliver, yep... if that is why they need their IP... some folks want it for game 'lobby' type applications as well...
Gwen said
Hi, Your web service for retreiving public Ip is not available... do you knaw another one ?<br />Thanks in advance<br />
Oliver Sturm said
And wouldn't it be even easier to get a free &lt;a href="<a target="_new" href="http://www.dyndns.org/"&gt;DynDNS&lt;/a&gt;">http://www.dyndns.org/"&gt;DynDNS&lt;/a&gt;</a> (or similar) account?