[YLUG] Finding the external IP of a linksys router

[Phillip Michael Jordan]

Martin Rowe wrote:
> That's useful to know, as I'm in the same boat as Stephen with a
> couple of dyndns account but only a slot for one in my wireless router
> (KCorp KLG-575). Unfortunately the second url isn't much use for ntl
> users, as it returns the address of the transparent proxy ntl provide.
> Quite a few web sites I've visited do they same, though dyndns.org &
> whatismyip.com seem to have no trouble getting through that to the
> correct one.
If NTL is running Squid those sites probably observe the
X-Forwarded-For: (or so) HTTP header that is added by Squid.
Alternatively, they might be using something other than port 80, which
isn't picked up by the proxy.

~phil