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308620 2004-12-29 09:39:00 How do I find out what my IP address is? I've tried whatismyip.com, which gives me one number, and my modem gives two different numbers. Which of those three numbers is my actual internet IP address (or is there another altogether)?

I thought I'd be clever and figure it out by signing up with no-ip.com and checking what they think my IP address is compared with the little utility you can download from them to auto-update it every time you log on. However the no-ip.com website and their utility disagreed with each other.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Mike.
Mike (15)
308621 2004-12-29 09:46:00 www.whatismyip.com will give you your true, external IP address.

Your router will tell you this, and also your internal IP address.

Which is correct? Depends on the purpose. An internal network related thing will involve your internal IP, which will start in 192.168.x.x, or 10.x.x.x.

An internet thing probably has to do with your external IP address, given by your ISP. In most cases in NZ this starts with 222.152.x.x (Jetstream), 60.x.x.x (Orcon bitstream), 202.x.x.x (Most dial-up), or 203.x.x.x (Telstra/Paradise).

Note I said in most cases. It really could be many others, but I have covered the majority.

Cheers George
george12 (7)
308622 2004-12-29 09:49:00 while on the net

for NT, win 2k and xp
go to cmd prompt type in
ipconfig (add /help for more info on this command if you wish)

for 95 , 98 ME
go to run type in
winipcfg
beama (111)
308623 2004-12-29 09:52:00 No no no, that will give internal IP address.

I'm pretty sure he wants external (www.whatismyip.com)
george12 (7)
308624 2004-12-29 09:54:00 www.whatismyip.com (http://www.whatismyip.com/) will give you your true, external IP address.
Your router will tell you this, and also your internal IP address.whatismyip.com and my router did not give the same address. Neither of the addresses my IP gave were internal IPs (my internal IPs start with 10.1) - one started with 202, the other with 203 (my router told me my internal IP address somewhere else in the settings). whatismyip.com gave a 203 as well, but different from the one my router gave me.

Make sense?

Mike.
Mike (15)
308625 2004-12-29 09:56:00 No no no, that will give internal IP address.

I'm pretty sure he wants external (http://www.whatismyip.com)Correct, I'm after my true external IP address. IPCONFIG gives only my internal IP addresses.

Mike.
Mike (15)
308626 2004-12-29 10:10:00 OK Then.

http://checkip.dyndns.org/
http://www.whatismyip.com/
http://www.whatismyipaddress.com/
www.lawrencegoetz.com

Go to those four. Do they all agree? If not, something very strange is at work. You don't happen to have some rotating proxy program running do you!?

There should only be ONE external IP address, and both router and websites should agree.

What type of connection are you on?
george12 (7)
308627 2004-12-29 10:19:00 Could be a transparent proxy on behalf of the ISP.

Run:
ipconfig /all
Post back the results and I'll let you know which line is your _real_ IP address :)


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
308628 2004-12-29 10:21:00 Huh?

How can ipconfig /all even know the real IP address?

Sure doesn't say it for me, I just get my 10.2.0.19 internal one...
george12 (7)
308629 2004-12-29 10:23:00 Well, he starts off saying "Modem" then halfway through says "Router".

If its a router, then connect to the routers webmin interface and it'll tell you in there.


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
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