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Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box



Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2018 11:04:51 -0000 (UTC) Dan Purgert said:
>
>> Ew, CGNAT. :(
>> 
>> If you have a particularly poor ISP, they may even NAT you somewhere
>> insane outside of RFC1918 (10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 / 172.16.0.0 -
>> 172.31.255.255 / 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255) or RFC6598 (100.64.0.0 -
>> 100.127.255.255) space.
>
> Since RFC1918 and RFC6598 reserved addresses you mentioned are free (as in
> lunch) to use, an ISP violating them in their internal cloud must be
> really poor of clues, rather than of finances.

Yep, "poor as in bad", rather than "poor as in a pauper".


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