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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 | 9498 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 | 4352 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | March 29, 2022, 9:43 a.m. | permalink