I cant see my ip address on the frontpage?

You probably haven't enabled javascript / cookies for this site, this is sadly needed for now while theres still problems with automated tools, I am currently looking into ways to get back to the old version that worked without requiring it.


The hostname shown is wrong

Strange, it might be stale records in the DNS cache, if your sure that your PTR record is something else, please write a note on the contact page, then ill look into it.


How much traffic does this site receive?

_ALOT_ more than most people would think. There is one major problem though, a few people are using automated tools against the site, that result in an incredible high amount of requests/sec, to give a few examples check the two reports below, they are generated from the raw server logs, one of them is when the load is really high (Aug 1), the other is when the site is at normal load (17 Now).

August 1, 2009 report
November 17, 2009 report

Luckily the use of automated tools have been dropping steadily over the last few months, its also against the Fair Use Policy anyway.

But back to the topic!, if we only count human beings visiting the site, its receiving about 5K actual requests each day, according to Google Analytics.


Isnt this just a wrapper around gethostbyaddr()/gethostbyname()/etc?

Yep, in fact one of the first versions of Myip.dk was implemented as an C++ ISAPI Extension for IIS, that was just calling the socket functions such as gethostbyaddr() / inet_addr() etc, it was a nightmare to update the site, so I eventually decided to go over to Asp.Net, again pretty simple code, about 50 lines of code total, then the issue with automated tools arrived, which increased the amount of code needed significantly, to prevent users from wasting huge amounts of resources on nothing.

So yep, its all pretty simple stuff, but things quickly get complicated when you suddently start receiving 12Mill requests a day.