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Command line to get my public IP address by leveraging handy feature in OpenDNS
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myip.py
# OpenDNS resolves "myip.opendns.com" to the caller's publicly-facing IP.
# To use this feature, resolve that DNS name against an OpenDNS name server.
# https://github.com/rthalley/dnspython
# pip install dnspython
import dns.resolver
resolver = dns.resolver.Resolver()
opendns_ns_ip = resolver.query('resolver1.opendns.com')
resolver.nameservers = [str(opendns_ns_ip[0])]
my_ip = resolver.query('myip.opendns.com')
print(my_ip[0])
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