We can get our external IP address by following ways :
- Call http request :
curl http://wtfismyip.com/textorcurl http://ifconfig.me/ip - Lookup A record for hostname
nslookup myip.opendns.com resolver1.opendns.com(this only works when you use resolver of OpenDNS)
Bonus : curl https://v6.ident.me/ for IPv6