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The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
- forgotpwd16 2y agoWere those addresses used for anything or simple domain squatting?
- johng 2y agoLooks like he had useful info up for people.... I never heard of it before today either: https://ip4only.me/home.cgi https://ip4only.me/home.cgi
- leemelone 2y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20241203115654/http://ip4.me/ https://web.archive.org/web/20241203115654/http://ip4.me/
- F_r_k 2y agoTo know your IP
- lxgr 2y agoThey were great memorable and ad-free sites that simply showed you your own (or your NAT's) public IP, as seen by the HTTP server.
- GJim 2y agoI'm puzzled why you have been downvoted for asking a genuine question (and all credit to those who have taken time to respond to you). Perhaps the downvoters would care to explain their actions?
- cedilla 2y agoThe question may be genuine but its phrasing probably suggests an allegation to most readers.
- syntheticnature 2y agoI didn't downvote, but the question was answerable by simply visiting the domains typed into the comment.
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- narmiouh 2y agoRIP Kevin, thanks for the fish!
- jmclnx 2y agoI never heard of ip[46].me but the site is very informative. RIP Kevin Loch
- F_r_k 2y agoRIP Kevin. Used these sites a lot! I hope they give then to a charity/charitable person. I proposed to continue the service ad free, for free to them. Hopefully they accept my proposal. It would be such a shame for the service to become "enshittified" by some greedy company
- lxgr 2y agoOh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more. Rest in peace! Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a public good in a similar way as pool.ntp.org. Checking for generic Internet connectivity (i.e. not only having an IP address, but being able to reach public sites, these sites being non-cached, not-captive-portaled etc.) seems like a problem that too many apps, scripts, and devices are solving again and again.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoIf you have the resources to maintain it, you can contact the estate. (They'd like to sell the domains, so unless they're bundled with Brickshelf the highest bidder will probably be a traffic-farming company or something, but you never know.)
- PhilipRoman 2y agoifconfig.me is a similar service which I often use. It has a nice feature that if you do "curl ifconfig.me", you'll get only a string with the ip address, no markup.
- lxgr 2y agoMe too, but that's a whopping 5 characters more. Think of all the extra keyboard wear! I do like the curl-ability of that one a lot, though, and on my own computer I can just configure an alias or shell function for it :)
- venusenvy47 2y agoTry "curl ip.wtf" to save your keyboard :)
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoThis site is behind cloudflare and has captcha-blocked my queries more than once.
- Deeg9rie9usi 2y agoHe was also known in the LEGO community: https://www.brickfanatics.com/tributes-for-founder-lego-website-brickshelf/ https://www.brickfanatics.com/tributes-for-founder-lego-webs... RIP
- silverquiet 2y ago> The Kevin M Loch Estate will be shutting down Kevin's websites in the near future (4/1/2025). All respect to the deceased, but there's always at least a tiny part of me that is suspicious of anything taking place on April 1.
- whizzter 2y agoCould simply be that a bunch of invoices/billing are connected to months and they don't want to pay beyond the current month (to make sure they get their money for the domains).
- tusslewake 2y agohttps://kevinloch.com/ https://kevinloch.com/
- sedatk 2y ago> Note: This website will be disabled by 3/1/2025. Website content will be relocated to nensus.com/kl-net So much for leaving a legacy with your domain name.
- toomuchtodo 2y ago> In Kevin’s own words on kevinloch.com: “I am also an amateur physicist, programmer, photographer, independent film producer (at WTF Productions) and AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego).” Kevin was also passionate about any and all things space related: the sky, the stars, and beyond; trying to find the meaning in how things work, why they work, and what would make them work better. His latest passion after moving back to Reston was soaking in the skyline from the rooftop of his apartment building and bicycling the paths of Reston and beyond. https://www.loudounfuneralchapel.com/obituaries/Kevin-Loch/#!/Obituary https://www.loudounfuneralchapel.com/obituaries/Kevin-Loch/#... https://bsrender.io/ https://bsrender.io/ https://nensus.com/kl-net/ https://nensus.com/kl-net/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lAuXWARqt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lAuXWARqt8 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10414562/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10414562/
- jabiko 2y agoAlso you can watch his memorial service here: https://www.youtube.com/live/YbnPeUgHGu8?t=1271 https://www.youtube.com/live/YbnPeUgHGu8?t=1271
- rafram 2y agoI’m not anti-religion in any way, but this left a really bad taste in my mouth. Loch’s nephew (the pastor who led the service) kept saying that Loch wasn’t religious. Then he’d go straight back to talking about Christ, and reminiscing about times when Loch had participated in Christian ritual! It’s one thing to volunteer your religious organization as a venue for a memorial, even for someone who wasn’t religious. It’s another to memorialize the person with an explicitly religious service.
- CogitoCogito 2y agoMaybe Loch wouldn't have minded? I'm not religious, but I don't really care if I were memorialized with a religious service. My belief is that service is more for the people left behind than the one who died anyway.
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- p1mrx 2y ago5ad::
- mbreese 2y agoI never knew of him from ip4.me, but I definitely visited his Lego site Brickshelf (https://brickshelf.com/ https://brickshelf.com/). Thanks Kevin.
- dang 2y agoA small thread from long ago: Massive Aircraft Carrier made of Lego, 200,000 bricks, 350LB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=415448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=415448 - Dec 2008 (3 comments)
- homebrewer 2y agoA reminder that you do not need websites or an HTTP client to learn your public IP: dig @resolver1.opendns.com myip.opendns.com TXT +short dig @ns1.google.com o-o.myaddr.l.google.com TXT +short dig can be replaced with any DNS lookup utility (nslookup, drill, etc).
- xrd 2y agoThe open DNS query failed for me with: "Query A or AAAA for your source address as seen by the resolver" But, the google nameserver did work. Thanks!
- Polizeiposaune 2y agoThe former should be dig -4 @resolver1.opendns.com myip.opendns.com A +short dig -6 @resolver1.opendns.com myip.opendns.com AAAA +short
- jayknight 2y agoUnless you're on a network that blocks all dns traffic not to their own dns servers.
- roygbiv2 2y agoReally rolls off the tongue, going to put it with my useful numbers like 0118 999 881 99 9119 725 3.
- easterncalculus 2y agoRIP Kevin. These websites no doubt helped thousands of people over the years. If anyone is looking for an alternative site to check their v6 and v4 addresses, check out this one here: https://ip6.biz/ https://ip6.biz/
- tecleandor 2y agoSeems like he passed away in June but maybe the Estate didn't sort out everything until recently? https://www.brickfanatics.com/tributes-for-founder-lego-website-brickshelf/ https://www.brickfanatics.com/tributes-for-founder-lego-webs...
- Polizeiposaune 2y agoIt takes time (typically some number of months) to get appointed as the executor of an estate, and then even more time for the executor to get effective control over the estate's assets.
- tecleandor 2y agoAh yeah, I missed part of my response I think. I was trying to say that he didn't pass away recently, but maybe we just noticed it because the estate (or the executor) just started to manage this asset and left that message in the domain.
- ddtaylor 2y agoRIP silent hero
- atentaten 2y agoHe was relatively young; what was the cause of death?
- iJohnDoe 2y agoKudos for his contributions. Lots of solutions out there. I like wasab.is https://wasab.is https://wasab.is curl wasab.is curl wasab.is/json
- lemcoe9 2y agoip4.me and related websites actually inspired me to create a more-whimsical version of the website, which I call ipkitten.com. Not only do you get your IP address, User Agent, and approximate geolocation, but you also get a kitten GIF! It also works from the command line, like this: $ curl ipkitten.com 4.2.2.2 I am sure that Kevin has saved engineers and other IT people tons of headache and time with his simple, helpful, and ad-free tools.
- f30e3dfed1c9 2y agoI like that this prints the IP address followed by a newline. some similar services don't and it's sort of annoying.
- cjcampbell 2y agoDon’t know where I first discovered it, but I have been using ipkitten for years when working with non-tech friends, family, and clients. It seems to help with the intimidation filter of getting into the weeds, so thank you! I didn’t realize it was command line friendly!
- SuperSandro2000 2y ago5 points on that some scammer is going to buy the domains and doing shady things with it.