🚀 Exciting News from BSD Cafe! 🚀 We're thrilled to...

🚀 Exciting News from BSD Cafe! 🚀

We're thrilled to announce a new service: myip.bsd.cafe!

Now live, this tool is your go-to resource for checking your public IP address via Telnet, SSH, and HTTP—also perfect for times when you're on a command-line interface without browser access.

Explore more and contribute on our Brew page: https://brew.bsd.cafe/BSDCafe/checkmyip

Whether you're an IT professional or a tech enthusiast, this service is built to make your digital life a bit easier. Set up your own instance or use our public service.
Full instructions available on our Brew repository!

Spread the word and let's make network troubleshooting easier for everyone!

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Like 9 May at 11:27 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe

12 comments

@stefano

this is handy! and easier to remember URL than the other 'my ip' API i used to use...

but one feature request: could you make it not redirect from http to https? i don't think TLS is necessary for this service and that makes it easier for systems that don't have a CA root installed or whatever

9 May at 11:29 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe

Stefano Marinelli

@lw Thank you for your feedback. Sure, I'll modify it later today.

9 May at 11:30 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe

@stefano thanks!

9 May at 11:30 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe

Stefano Marinelli

@lw modified. could you please test it (as my browsers' cache still go to https)?

9 May at 11:33 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe

@stefano

seems not quite working:

% curl -si4 http://myip.bsd.cafe
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: nginx
Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 11:33:11 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 146
Connection: keep-alive

<html>
<head><title>404 Not Found</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>404 Not Found</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>