Which is neatly abstracted away so you don’t have to think about it unless you want to. And therefore reaching out to an external server and having it say where the request came from is the path of least resistance for a script that can work across different hosts with minimal machine specific configuration.
Listen, if you want to check the IPv6 address from the interface list go ahead I’m not trying to stop you.
But because I anyway need to reach a third party to know my own IPv4 address then yeah when that third party can also tell me IPv6 address I’m gonna do it that way.
Listen, if you want to check the IPv6 address from the interface list go ahead I’m not trying to stop you.
But because I anyway need to reach a third party to know my own IPv4 address then yeah when that third party can also tell me IPv6 address I’m gonna do it that way.