Firefox ShowIP Plugin

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Wed Jun 8 19:59:08 CEST 2011


On 6/8/11 10:50 AM, 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" :-)
> 


Ah, oh well.

~Seth


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