Table of Contents
help/documentation for myip services under BALUG.org
http/https
https/http URLs for the services:
http or https may be used with their respective default ports 80 and 443,
domain names that may be used:
- www.balug.org (dual stack: this service available via IPv4 and IPv6)
- www.ipv4.balug.org (this service available only via IPv4)
- www.ipv6.balug.org (this service available only via IPv6)
Note that in the above, if the www. prefix is omitted, will HTTP redirect to include the www. prefix.
Path portion of URL | notes |
---|---|
/myip | give IP address of client as seen from The Internet |
/srcip | not canonical and may go away in future, otherwise does like the above |
/myconnection | outputs line contains additional information as described under myconnection under ssh |
So, e.g:
https://www.balug.org/myip http://www.balug.org/myip
https://www.ipv4.balug.org/myip http://www.ipv4.balug.org/myip
https://www.ipv6.balug.org/myip http://www.ipv6.balug.org/myip
ssh
domain names that may be used:
- balug.org (dual stack: this service available via IPv4 and IPv6)
- ipv4.balug.org (this service available only via IPv4)
- ipv6.balug.org (this service available only via IPv6)
Note that the above may optionally be prefixed by www.
user / login name, use myip, e.g. ssh -T myip@balug.org
or ssh -l myip -T balug.org
There is no password and password is neither needed nor requested.
No pseudo-terminal allocation will not occur, so may want to use -T option or equivalent option/setting.
For ssh fingerprints, see DNSSEC secured DNS SSHFP records, for many clients, may also be able to use, e.g.:
ssh -T -o VerifyHostKeyDNS=yes myip@balug.org
One may also want to put suitable configuration options in ~/.ssh/config or equivalent, e.g.:
Host balug.org balug.org. ipv4.balug.org ipv4.balug.org. ipv6.balug.org ipv6.balug.org. www.balug.org www.balug.org. www.ipv4.balug.org www.ipv4.balug.org. www.ipv6.balug.org www.ipv6.balug.org. User myip RequestTTY no VerifyHostKeyDNS yes
One can then conveniently do something like just: ssh balug.org
In all output cases, the output is terminated by a single newline character.
myconnection
One may give a single command matching exactly one of these:
- myconnection
- SSH_CONNECTION
in which case the output is instead of just the first value from SSH_CONNECTION from the environment,
the full content of SSH_CONNECTION from the environment, which
is described on ssh(1):
SSH_CONNECTION Identifies the client and server ends of the con- nection. The variable contains four space-sepa- rated values: client IP address, client port num- ber, server IP address, and server port number.
E.g.:
$ ssh -T -o VerifyHostKeyDNS=yes myip@balug.org myconnection 96.86.170.226 53136 96.86.170.229 22 $ ssh -T -o VerifyHostKeyDNS=yes myip@ipv6.balug.org SSH_CONNECTION 2001:470:67:76f::2 58882 2001:470:1f05:19e::2 22 $
concept/design/alpha/beta - NOT YET IMPLEMENTED in production
Various URL query parameters that may be accepted.
For http/https URLs/interface as noted further above,
with http or https, and one of those noted domains, and with path portion of /myip
that path portion can be followed by query parameters.
those start with an initial ? and then each subsequent parameter is separated from other by &
E.g. one could use:
/myip?list
to get a list, or
/myip?help
to get help, or
/myip?submit
to submit an entry, etc.
list
…
help
help is exclusive and takes no value(s)
submit
Lots of documentation still to be done here:
submit URL, domain, or IP address
notes
protocol https http dns ssh telnet
httpsport 443, httpport 80, dnsport 53, sshport 22, telnetport 23
class IN, type TXT
user