How to get your external static IP address with telnet or curl

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Commands to use to get an IP address with telnet and web

Telnet

To get your external IP address, you can browse using a web browser or by using a telnet command

telnet telnetmyip.com

http://www.telnetmyip.com/

The result will be an XML file (if 111.111.111.111) was your external IP address

{


"comment": "##     Your IP Address is 111.111.111.111 (53851)     ##",


"family": "ipv4",
"ip": "111.111.111.111",
"port": "53851",
"protocol": "http",
"version": "v1.1.0",
"website": "https://github.com/packetsar/checkmyip"
}

Curl

You can also use Curl to get the external public IP address, use the following command

curl http://ipecho.net/plain