This is funny. I worked for dyndns over the summer and keeping this up is one of their major concerns. I think it runs on several different servers around the w

This is funny. I worked for dyndns over the summer and keeping this up is one of their major concerns. I think it runs on several different servers around the world, anycasted. Tons of router manufacturers from around the world put something like the above snippet with checkip in their code, as well as people like you and me who use this as a quick hack.