http://askubuntu.com/questions/145012/h ... e-terminal
icanhazip.com is my favorite.
curl icanhazip.com
icanhazip.com is my favorite.
curl icanhazip.com
Ironically I think 01micko, mavrothal and others in favour of allowing the external IP check provided the best answer to this question by saying that making the connection (or 'request' - whatever you want to call it) to icanhazip was no more risky than using a browser.gcmartin wrote:Again I'll directly ask those in objection. HOW is this exposing Puppy users to exploit? Is there any evidence that the many thousands of users of PUPs that this exposes exploitation to any of them?
As Mick said, if you do not want toleave footprints, do not walk.greengeek wrote: But then - if it is the router that is requesting an external IP on behalf of EVERY PC on the LAN - maybe I was already exposed before ipinfo came on the scene...
Hi @Greengeek, you are correct!Greengeek wrote: ... So, please consider the situation of someone who does NOT WANT to use a browser (either for the current session only, or forever - doesn't matter...) - if they boot a recent puppy, believing they are only accessing only their local LAN, in fact they are incorrect. The puppy is guaranteed to try to go external and become active on the WAN. ...
What's the storyThere is a someone...
And that someone just needs to get the facts and the code to audit it from a technical and ethical perspective.
What more information other than the one in the previous 12 pages you may want?Atle wrote:I did request information to pass over if any, but there is non so far...
No problem in bring it up.Atle wrote:I think its perfectly fair to bring up this issue.
3 years and finally there seems to no questions left to ask?
Or is it?
That would be a no then.Atle wrote:I have not received anything to audit
If you LAN is connected to the web the machines are connected too. Unless you have some specific configuration on your router.greengeek wrote: - If I have a puppy operating solely on my internal LAN (without doing any internet accesses...) does anyone out there on the interweb thingy (or hackerverse as it should more properly be known) realise that this machine is even turned on?
The local machines do not get an external IP (that's why you need to find it asking an outside source). Because of the IPv4 address exhaustion ISP providers use network address translation to accommodate many PC with the same external IP (as we said before...).greengeek wrote: - As soon as this machine receives it's local IP and communicated with my router has the router already applied for an external IP for this machine? If not, at what point DOES an external IP (specific to THIS machine) get allocated?
Check the link above. Should be clear.greengeek wrote: - Once an external IP is allocated to my machine who gets to know what that external IP is? Obviously my ISP knows, but does it report this information to a google server? Or does it maybe have to report it to one of those 13 internet hub thingies?
As soon as you connect to the web and do not have a firewall that blocks ping.greengeek wrote: - At what point is this machine exposed to pings from an external source?
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$ host icanhazip.com
icanhazip.com has address 216.69.252.100
icanhazip.com has address 216.69.252.101
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$ curl -si icanhazip.com | grep RTFM
X-RTFM: Learn about this site at http://bit.ly/14DAh2o and don't abuse the service