echoip

A simple service for looking up your IP address. This is the code that powers https://ifconfig.co.

Usage

Just the business, please:

$ curl ifconfig.co
127.0.0.1

$ http ifconfig.co
127.0.0.1

$ wget -qO- ifconfig.co
127.0.0.1

$ fetch -qo- https://ifconfig.co
127.0.0.1

$ bat -print=b ifconfig.co/ip
127.0.0.1

Country and city lookup:

$ curl ifconfig.co/country
Elbonia

$ curl ifconfig.co/country-iso
EB

$ curl ifconfig.co/city
Bornyasherk

As JSON:

$ curl -H 'Accept: application/json' ifconfig.co  # or curl ifconfig.co/json
{
  "city": "Bornyasherk",
  "country": "Elbonia",
  "country_iso": "EB",
  "ip": "127.0.0.1",
  "ip_decimal": 2130706433
}

Port testing:

$ curl ifconfig.co/port/80
{
  "ip": "127.0.0.1",
  "port": 80,
  "reachable": false
}

Pass the appropriate flag (usually -4 and -6) to your client to switch between IPv4 and IPv6 lookup.

Features

• Easy to remember domain name
• Fast
• Supports IPv6
• Supports HTTPS
• Supports common command-line clients (e.g. curl, httpie, wget and fetch)
• JSON output
• Country and city lookup using the MaxMind GeoIP database
• Port testing
• Open source under the BSD 3-Clause license

Why?

• To scratch an itch
• An excuse to use Go for something
• Faster than ifconfig.me and has IPv6 support

Building

Compiling requires the Golang compiler to be installed. This package can be installed with go get:

go get github.com/mpolden/echoip/...

For more information on building a Go project, see the official Go documentation.

Docker image

A Docker image is available on Docker Hub, which can be downloaded with:

docker pull mpolden/echoip

Usage

$ echoip -h
Usage:
  echoip [OPTIONS]

Application Options:
  -f, --country-db=FILE        Path to GeoIP country database
  -c, --city-db=FILE           Path to GeoIP city database
  -l, --listen=ADDR            Listening address (default: :8080)
  -r, --reverse-lookup         Perform reverse hostname lookups
  -p, --port-lookup            Enable port lookup
  -t, --template=FILE          Path to template (default: index.html)
  -H, --trusted-header=NAME    Header to trust for remote IP, if present (e.g. X-Real-IP)

Help Options:
  -h, --help                   Show this help message