Firefox ShowIP Plugin

Matt Ryanczak ryanczak at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 19:53:50 CEST 2011


On 06/08/2011 01:50 PM, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:41:43AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/showip/
>>
>> If you haven't heard about it or forgot about it, it's just fun to see.
>
> Beware of the limitation, that it just lists the IPs of the site
> named in the URL, with IPv6 preferred over IPv4 - but not indicating
> which address was really used to fetch content. So you might see an IPv6
> address there, but fallback to IPv4 has happened.
>
> The only real info is "does this host in the URL have an AAAA RR" :-)

What Daniel just said. was typing the same thing when I saw this reply!


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