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Finding out your IP address

Users who want to connect to your server over the internet need to know your computer’s IP address (something that looks like “141.24.4.5”). Unless you have a static (fixed) IP address, the address changes everytime you connect to the internet. If you are behind a router, there is an internal and an external IP address. The external IP is the one you want; it differs from the internal address that you see, for example, in the System Preferences.

To find out your current external IP address:

If that doesn't work: