On 31/05/13 15:23, mick wrote:
On Fri, 31 May 2013 14:19:30 +0100 Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk allegedly wrote:
- do you know your public IP address, and I can check?
Never knew I had one. can the Magic Curl help?
Anthony
Steve's suggestion (curl) has given you your public IP address - i.e the address seen by the destination.
This address will vary depending on your method of connection. At home you may have a fixed IP address from your ISP. It is more likely though that you will have a dynamic address allocated from a pool by the ISP. When out and about your public address will be that allocated by the network provider at the time (and may be interfered with by varying levels of proxies).
My ISP tells me (by proxy) that it hasn't allocated me an IP address, and that it will be tacked-on by whatever host/dongle etc I'm connecting through, which is why I have to have a 'roaming connection'.