ShowIP

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Shane Kerr wrote:

> 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.

It actually doesn't know, it *GUESSES* what IP will be used, and shows 
that one.

It doesn't actually show what IPv4/IPv6 address the TCP connection really 
goes to (I just routed my web server IPv6 address to somewhere that didn't 
work and dumped the traffic, the actual webpage was fetched over IPv4 even 
though ShowIP indicated it was using IPv6).

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se