<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 9, 2022, at 1:42 AM, notify--- via aur-requests <<a href="mailto:aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org" class="">aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">kleintux [1] filed a deletion request for whatismyip [2]:<br class=""><br class="">Script is hosted in aur git. no description / upstream url. uses 3th<br class="">party service to get the external ip.<br class=""><br class="">[1] <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/account/kleintux/" class="">https://aur.archlinux.org/account/kleintux/</a><br class="">[2] <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/whatismyip/" class="">https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/whatismyip/</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">This has to use an external service, since its purpose is querying your external facing IP address, even if you're behind a NAT. They could have used <a href="http://ifconfig.me" class="">ifconfig.me</a> instead, though, since that's another service. Depends on whether they trust the permanence of the owner of that domain, versus the permanence of Amazon Web Services running their own IP query service.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I do agree, however, that it may be required to host this tiny script on a Github repository or a Gist on Github, rather than using the AUR to host it. Even if it is under 1 KiB.</div></body></html>