ShowIP

Jeroen Massar jeroen at unfix.org
Tue Dec 1 16:44:42 CET 2009


Shane Kerr wrote:
> All,
> 
> The mail about the Mozilla IPv6 SSL brokenness reminded me that I'd been
> meaning to pimp a Firefox plugin that I like:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/firefox-showip/
> 
> It shows the IP address used to connect to a sight in the lower corner
> of your browser. Nice for knowing how IPv6-enabled your daily browsing
> is.

And unfortunately quite useless. All it does is a AAAA DNS lookup and
then shows that if an IPv6 address exists in DNS, wether that is used
for connecting or not....

Also note that the tool doesn't cope in any way with multiple IPv6 and
IPv4 addresses.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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