Just gimme the IP!

[Scott Ritchie]

On 06/13/2011 07:06 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday, June 13, 2011 09:58:21 PM Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>> What do you think?  Have you seen scripts or packaging in Ubuntu that
>> would benefit from a solid, recommended ip determination utility?
>> Where should it live?  net-tools?  iproute?  Somewhere else?
> 
> I'm not sure where it should live, but I think it should have a different name 
> as it's not a generic IP address utility, but one for a single specific 
> purpose.  Maybe sysip?
> 
> Scott K
> 

My thought was it should be something analogous to "whoami" -- I don't
want to join in on a naming bikeshed though.  Also this reminds me of
whatismyip.com

Having it by default sounds like a win though.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie