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February 2, 2020 16:43
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Command line to get my public IP address by leveraging handy feature in OpenDNS
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| # OpenDNS resolves "myip.opendns.com" to the caller's publicly-facing IP. | |
| # To use this feature, resolve that DNS name against an OpenDNS name server. | |
| # https://github.com/rthalley/dnspython | |
| # pip install dnspython | |
| import dns.resolver | |
| resolver = dns.resolver.Resolver() | |
| opendns_ns_ip = resolver.query('resolver1.opendns.com') | |
| resolver.nameservers = [str(opendns_ns_ip[0])] | |
| my_ip = resolver.query('myip.opendns.com') | |
| print(my_ip[0]) |
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