So, over the weekend my company’s static IP address changed. I didn’t know that until I needed to perform some work that’s critical to my job. No one told me, or told our outsourced developers.
We have an FTP policy that only allows in certain known IP addresses, so I couldn’t FTP at all, and I needed to badly to do some testing on some creatives.
Our internal IT guy was on the phone with the owner and couldn’t get back to me right away, so there was no way to find out what my ‘new’ IP address was, until our external developers pointed me to this URL:
http://stadiumyamaha.com/ip.asp
I assume that’s just a quick test page they’ve set up on one of their other client’s website, but it works, and its quick. Blogmarking it for future reference.
If you want something a bit easier to remember try:
http://www.whatismyipaddress.com
I wrote one for my own use a year or two ago:
http://www.asmourningdawned.com/cgi-bin/ip.cgi
You wouldn’t believe how handy that thing is. It also works well for scare tactics while using public computers. I should make the page look “scary”. Glad it worked out for you.
It’s just one line in PHP:
<?=$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]?>
And if you think that’s fun, try uploading a file called, say “phpinfo.php” that contains only the following line:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
and then access that in your browser. It’ll tell you all kinds of interesting things.
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