Geo IP Tool VS ipinfo.io

Geo IP Tool mentions

ipinfo.io mentions

• Potentially serious MITM issue!

  Then why is my client constantly connecting me to this subnet. Why is my google showing up in ukrainian. Also why does every IP on the subnet I've connected to trace back to Kyiv City, Ukraine when using ipinfo.io? - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago

• Remote connection to NAS, port forwarding etc...please help

  You can check what IP address is assigned to your router WAN interface in the router UI and compare that with what return services like https://ipinfo.io or https://whatismyipaddress.com or similar site that works in your country. Try searching “what is my up address” in baidu or any other search engine that works for you. - Source: Reddit / 23 days ago

• How Secure do I need my NAS to be?

  Yes. Synology publishes list of ports various services require. However it's important to port forward only for addresses you expect connections from, not entire world. For example, figure out your your out of state family's ISP's DHCP range (you can do it with ipinfo.io) and only allow connections on that port form that IP range. Either on your router -- or if that is not supported -- forward the port on the... - Source: Reddit / 20 days ago

• Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address”

  It will work. The server will return JSON. The URL http://ipinfo.io/ returns HTML if the Accept header indicates that you want HTML, and JSON if there is no header, a wildcard header, or a header that requests JSON. As far as I can see, irm doesn’t add an Accept header, so the command jodrellblank provided will fetch JSON and work correctly. - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago

• A new widget in development

  For location info https://ipinfo.io and for proxy/vpn detection https://proxycheck.io are ones I'd recommend. - Source: Reddit / 8 days ago