looking up ip global IP address from inside LAN

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Tue Jul 29 16:15:00 UTC 2003


On Tuesday 29 July 2003 08:55 am, Stoffel, Andrew wrote:
> In theory you should be able to get the address from traceroute
> because it SHOULD be the next address following your router's LAN
> address when you use traceroute... [I'm at work so I can't
> try/verify it myself right now...] (And assuming your router isn't
> blocking ICMP (the protocol used by traceroute))

No, that's not going to work, because the next address would be the 
address of your outside gateway.

And anyway, at that point you've sent packets outside the LAN, which 
Justin didn't want to do.

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