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is it possible to get a fixed ip address?

right now im the ip address of the server is changing every few hours, is there anyway to have a one ip address? and if not, what is the range of ip addresses? I need it for whitelisting

deleted-user-5242125 | 2 posts | April 29, 2019, 11:32 a.m. | permalink

No, it's not possible to get a fixed ip address. You can use ipify to look up the ip address of the machine you're on and then use that to update your whitelist.

Staff glenn | 10033 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | April 29, 2019, 5:10 p.m. | permalink

That doesn't work (now?) on pythonanywhere, this is the result:

from ipify import get_ip

Result:

ImportError: cannot import name 'linux_distribution' from 'platform' (/usr/lib/python3.8/platform.py)
zackees | 1 post | March 29, 2022, 3:13 a.m. | permalink

What is the full traceback?

Staff fjl | 4935 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | March 29, 2022, 9:43 a.m. | permalink

I'm still experiencing this issue, any resolution? stack trace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/jacobdunning2/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ipify/__init
__.py", line 31, in <module>
    from .ipify import get_ip
  File "/home/jacobdunning2/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ipify/ipify.
py", line 14, in <module>
    from .settings import API_URI, MAX_TRIES, USER_AGENT
  File "/home/jacobdunning2/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ipify/settin
gs.py", line 9, in <module>
    from platform import mac_ver, win32_ver, linux_distribution, system
ImportError: cannot import name 'linux_distribution' from 'platform' (/usr/l
ocal/lib/python3.10/platform.py)
jacobdunning2 | 1 post | May 12, 2024, 2:07 a.m. | permalink

Looks to be a known bug in ipify https://github.com/sindresorhus/ipify/issues/20

Staff sboyd | 629 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | May 12, 2024, 6:32 p.m. | permalink