Getting the 'external' IP address in Java

Question

I\'m not too sure how to go about getting the external IP address of the machine as a computer outside of a network would see it.

My following IPAddress class only g

Answer 1

All this are still up and working smoothly! (as of 23 Sep 2019)

• http://checkip.amazonaws.com/
• https://ipv4.icanhazip.com/ (works with ipv6 as subdomain too!)
• http://myexternalip.com/raw
• http://ipecho.net/plain
• http://bot.whatismyipaddress.com
• http://www.trackip.net/ip (only gives ipv6)
• http://curlmyip.com/ (17 Dec 2016)

Piece of advice: Do not direcly depend only on one of them; try to use one but have a contigency plan considering others! The more you use, the better!

Good luck!