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this will show you you current wan IP address. in the example above it shows <code>81.171.81.97</code><br> now using freegeoip.net we are going to see what the location of this IP address is by issuing the following command<br><code>curl freegeoip.net/xml/81.171.81.9795</code>
→Confirming your Ipvanish VPN connection
There are a couple ways to check wether your connection to Ipvanish's servers has really happened. I will show you a couple ways below<br>
<br>- Using freegeoip.net
<br><br> firstly lets get our wan IP address.<br> Issue the following command whilst logged into shell. <br> <code>dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com</code><br><br>this will show you you current wan IP address. <br>in the example above it shows <code>81.171.81.95</code><br><br>Using freegeoip.net we are going to see what the location of this IP address is by issuing the following command
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<br>this will display the location of the server and you will see that you are now connected through a different country.
<code>
<Response>
<br><IP>81.171.81.95</IP>
<br><CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
<br><CountryName>United States</CountryName>
<br><RegionCode>NY</RegionCode>
<br><RegionName>New York</RegionName>
<br><City>New York</City>
<br><ZipCode>10118</ZipCode>
<br><TimeZone>America/New_York</TimeZone>
<br><Latitude>40.7143</Latitude>
<br><Longitude>-74.006</Longitude>
<br><MetroCode>501</MetroCode>
<br></Response>
</code>
<p>-The second way you can confirm that you are connected to Ipvanish VPN is Using a terminal based text browser Lynx</p>
If the site is blocked by your ISP's warning message using Lynx we can browse and see the warning message. Once connected to Ipvanish VPN you can browse the blocked website again and see that the warning message is no longer there and you can visit the site.
<p>Lynx is not installed by default so we will have to install this application</p>
issue the following command
<br><code> sudo dnf install lynx</code>
<p>Once the application is installed you can browse the web using your shell terminal as follows
issue the following command <pcode> -Using a terminal based text browserlynx http://www.google.com </pcode><br>ofcourse google is not on anyone's blocked list. So please check here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_United_Kingdom] for sites that are blocked by ISP's and confirm that you an browse them without any block message
