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You don’t really have to ask a stranger - you can ask your router, in a similar way you can check the door number on your street.
by marcosscriven 6y ago
You don’t really have to ask a stranger - you can ask your router, in a similar way you can check the door number on your street.
- remram 6y agoAsk your router? Is there a generic way to do this, or do you mean "look into its vendor-specific management interface"?
- the8472 6y agoNAT-PMP, UPnP-IGD or PCP can be used for that. Home routers usually support at least one of those, but you may have to explicitly enable it.
- remram 6y ago3 competing techs... Of course this doesn't suffice in a variety of situations which is why STUN is a thing: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3489 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3489
- tenacious_tuna 6y agoI'm NAT'd, though with an external IP, so the IP my router sees is not the same as what the world sees--while my ISP did provide me this information in an email, it's much faster for me to ask Google or whatnot than to dig the email up.
- asymptosis 6y agoAssumes: * You have login access to the router * Your router is directly exposed to the internet * You're not using a VPN
- rnhmjoj 6y agoIf your ISP is doing a CGNAT, which are becoming more and more common, not even the router knows the public address.