ifconfig.co returning Cloudflare JS protection page

[cyounkins]

Recently ifconfig.co has been returning the Cloudflare javascript-based bot protection page. The issue is described here: mpolden/echoip#163

For me setting IPCHECKER=ipify.org fixed it. I had UPDATE_FREQUENCY=120000 (2 minutes) but I'm going to double it.

Thank you for this project!

[sjmayotte]

I noticed this as well. Thanks for contributing. I'll plan to update the docs

[cyounkins]

Unfortunately with ipify.org I frequently get ECONNRESET errors. I've been meaning to make a code change to make it more tolerant of transient errors, but I haven't gotten around to it.

[sjmayotte]

Good to know. Welcome your contribution whenever you have time.

[sjmayotte]

https://ifconfig.me/ is another service that might work

[shawngmc]

I've been getting the same ifconfig.co error. I'm going to try ipify.org for now, but I did a few minutes of digging.

A faster and more reliable way may be to use DNS against OpenDNS. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/22615/how-can-i-get-my-external-ip-address-in-a-shell-script, but an example using dig would be:

dig @resolver4.opendns.com myip.opendns.com +short -4

It might also be viable to have some fallback mechanisms (if the 'preferred' isn't available, try another). This bit me in the butt recently; to be fair, if I had notifications set up, I'd have been able to fix it sooner, so that's on me.