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# IP checker

> Show your own public IP and look up the IP a website resolves to. cURL-friendly for scripting. Hosted at checkmyipaddress.net.

The IP checker is a tiny utility with one job: tell you the IP address. Yours, or whatever IP a website is currently resolving to.

Open it at [checkmyipaddress.net ↗](https://checkmyipaddress.net).

## What it does

Two modes:

* **Visit it in a browser.** The page returns your public IP, your reverse DNS, your ASN, and the country your IP geolocates to. Useful when you need your IP for a firewall whitelist and don't trust the network you're on.
* **Hit it with cURL.** A plain-text endpoint at the same address returns the bare IP, nothing else. Easy to chain into shell scripts.

```bash theme={}
$ curl checkmyipaddress.net
203.0.113.42
```

For checking a website's IP rather than your own, the page accepts a hostname and returns the A and AAAA records the public DNS hands out for that name.

## When to reach for it

* **Firewall whitelisting.** Your IP changes when you switch networks. The checker tells you what the firewall actually sees.
* **Cloudflare debugging.** If a site is on Cloudflare, the public DNS returns a Cloudflare edge IP, not the origin. Compare what the checker returns against what your origin server actually has; if they match, the site is bypassing Cloudflare and orange cloud isn't doing its job.
* **Verifying a DNS change propagated.** Run the checker, see what IP the public DNS returns; if it's the new one, propagation is done from your network's perspective. If it's still the old one, your local resolver is caching.
* **Quick scripting.** Anything that wants the local public IP at runtime can grab it with `curl checkmyipaddress.net` and trust the answer.

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  <Accordion title="Sources" icon="book-bookmark">
    * [Tools overview](/tools/overview)
    * [checkmyipaddress.net ↗](https://checkmyipaddress.net)
    * [Networking tools](/tools/networking-tools)
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