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"Help > What Is My IP?" #9106

Open a-raccoon opened 6 years ago

a-raccoon commented 6 years ago

Please add the ability for qBittorrent to display what it believes your public IP address to be, to confirm whether proxy/VPN/route configurations are working correctly.

thalieht commented 6 years ago

Look for External IP: in Execution Log? Dunno if it's proof that it works though.

a-raccoon commented 6 years ago

@thalieht : Your IP can change mid-execution while qBittorrent is already running. I'm not sure which external server qBittorrent would have to ping to discovery a machine's public IP, and whether trackers or some BT protocol already volunteers this information to you. But it would have to be requested and served on-demand.

How does qBittorrent currently identify your external IP at startup? Auto-update ping?

The-KarateKid commented 5 years ago

It is recommended to set qBittorrent to the network interface used by your proxy/VPN, rather than the default of "Any Interface". Go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Network Interface.

You can test what IPs your client is communicating through with a test torrent provided by a service like this: http://ipmagnet.services.cbcdn.com/

Like others said though, your networking/IP settings could change later on while the program is running so you can't 100% be guaranteed what you see now will always be that way.

a-raccoon commented 5 years ago

Like others said though, your networking/IP settings could change later on while the program is running so you can't 100% be guaranteed what you see now will always be that way.

That is exactly the purpose of my feature request. I look forward to seeing it added, or seeing the public IP address always on display and updated regularly in the status bar.

a-raccoon commented 3 years ago

Addendum to this request: There seems to be no forward practical method to instruct QBT to discover the current external IP address after it has changed. I can force a lookup/update by changing the port, but I don't want to change my port. And rapidly changing the port twice probably harasses the trackers.

And I've changed my mind. I would like the external IP:port displayed in the status bar. ^_^

luzpaz commented 10 months ago

PR #20096