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title: VPS My IP
homepage: https://webinstall.dev/vps-myip
tagline: |
VPS My IP answers the question "what's my IP address?"
linux: true
description: |
Creates permanent swap space that will be activated on each boot.
`vps-myip` will contact ipify.org to tell you your IP addresses:
1. `api.ipify.org` for your IPv4 or A address
2. `api6.ipify.org` for your IPv6 or AAAA address
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Example output:
```txt
IPv4 (A) : 136.36.196.101
IPv6 (AAAA): 2605:a601:a919:9800:f8be:f2c4:9ad7:9763
```
### What is an IP address?
An IP or Internet Protocol address is basically the phone number of your
computer or server.
Whenever you visit a domain - such as https://google.com - the `google.com` part
is _resolved_ to the IP address using, quite literally, the internet's Contacts
list, known as DNS.
### How to get your IP address?
Due to how complex networking can be, the most reliable way to get your IP
address is basically to "make a call" to another server and ask it to tell you
what shows up on the "called id", as it were.
_IPify_ is such a service.
You likely have an IPv4 or A address as well as an IPv6 or AAAA address.
To find out your IPv4 or A address:
```bash
curl -s https://api.ipify.org
```
To find out your IPv6 or AAAA address:
```bash
curl -s https://api6.ipify.org
```
To find out either address:
```bash
curl -s https://api46.ipify.org
```
You can also use the `ifconfig`, `ip`, or `ipconfig` commands to figure this
out, but they may give you incorrect information if the network setup is complex
(as is the case... most of the time - home and business networks, cloud
networks, etc).

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#!/bin/bash
{
set -e
set -u
ipv4=$(curl -s https://api.ipify.org)
ipv6=$(curl -s https://api6.ipify.org)
if [ -n "$ipv4" ]; then
echo "IPv4 (A) : $ipv4"
fi
if [ -n "$ipv6" ] && [ "ipv6" != "ipv4" ]; then
echo "IPv6 (AAAA): $ipv6"
fi
}