Find out the actual public IP address

Posted by John Liu on Wednesday, January 5, 2022

When in a corporate or home network, run the following powershell command to find out the actual public IP address your computer exposed to the Internet. Make sure all VPN are closed first.

(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://ipinfo.io/ip").Content
Imports System.Net

Module Module1
    Sub Main()
        Dim client As New WebClient()
        Dim publicIp As String = client.DownloadString("https://api.ipify.org")
        Console.WriteLine($"Your public IP address is: {publicIp}")
    End Sub
End Module

Alternatively, you can simply browser to address https://ipinfo.io/ip