IP address of Embassy?

Services Support
1

Is there a way to see the public IP/WAN of my Embassy?

My problem: I’m always able to get to my Start9 Embassy from outside my network via Tor. My ISP changes our IP often and does not offer static IP. I have cams on this network that I can’t access when the IP changes. If I could login to my Embassy via Tor and see the WAN address, then I could reconnect to my cams when the IP changes.

I am able to do this now with MyNode’s built in VPN service but I wish to swap locations with my Start9 node.

Any ideas would be appreciated - thanks.

2

BTW - I tried to build a Start9 Pages site with this code to display the IP but it only displays the Tor exit node IP.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>IP Address Display</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Your IP Address is:</h1>
    <script>
        fetch('https://api.ipify.org?format=json')
            .then(response => response.json())
            .then(data => {
                document.body.innerHTML += `<p>${data.ip}</p>`;
            })
            .catch(error => {
                document.body.innerHTML += '<p>Unable to retrieve IP address.</p>';
            });
    </script>
</body>
</html>
3

Your StartOS server does not have a WAN address.

The solution to your issue doesn’t have much to do with your server. Most routers have Dynamic DNS settings that allow you to connect to a dynamic DNS provider and keep the IP assigned to your domain updated. You would then access your cameras at the designated domain name, rather than IP address. This is all completely out of scope for Start9. You’ll want to do some research on Dynamic DNS providers, such a No-IP, and DYNDNS.

In the next version of SartOS, we will be recommending the use of a VPN with a public facing VPS. If your cameras are on the same LAN as the StartOS server, you’ll be able to set up to connect to your cameras as well.

4

Yes, I meant the WAN address of the network my Embassy is on - Like how I can see it from MyNode’s VPN service - but thank you - I’ll look more into dynamic DNS providers.

5

You’ll need ssh over tor, setup first. But most bash commands should work. So, while I haven’t tested this specifically, you should be able to use the dig command to find your WAN address:

As an example:

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com