opendnsmyip

README

opendnsmyip

A Go package that returns the public-facing IPv4 address of the client by querying the Cisco OpenDNS servers.

Availability

• Gridfinity GitLab
• GitHub

Security

• Security Policy

Original Authors

• James Polera <james@uncryptic.com>
• Dmitriy Kuznetsov <dmitriy.v.kuznetsov@gmail.com>

Credits

This package was inspired by:

• public-ip (nodejs)
• OpenDNS::MyIP (Perl)

Usage

package main

import (
 "fmt"
 myip "github.com/johnsonjh/opendnsmyip"
)

func main() {
 myIpAddr, err := myip.GetIP()
 if err != nil {
  fmt.Errorf("Error getting IPv4 address: %v", err)
 } else {
  fmt.Printf("Public IPv4 address is: %s", myIpAddr)
 }
}

Documentation

Overview

Package opendnsmyip returns the public-facing IPv4 address of the requesting client by querying Cisco OpenDNS servers.

Example:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	myip "github.com/johnsonjh/opendnsmyip"
)

func main() {
	myIpAddr, err := myip.GetMyIP()
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Errorf("failure getting IP address: %s\n", err)
	} else {
		fmt.Printf("Public IPv4 address is: %s\n", myIpAddr)
	}
}

Index

• func GetMyIP() (string, error)
• func MyIPDNSLookup(config dns.ClientConfig, client *dns.Client, message *dns.Msg) (string, error)

Functions

func GetMyIP

func GetMyIP() (string, error)

GetMyIP returns the public-facing IPv4 address of the caller client by querying the Cisco OpenDNS servers.

func MyIPDNSLookup

func MyIPDNSLookup(
	config dns.ClientConfig,
	client *dns.Client,
	message *dns.Msg,
) (string, error)

MyIPDNSLookup performs a DNS lookup using the "miekg/dns" package.