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+# Overbuilt myip module
+
+Collect and determine what is probably our source ip, only, providing the most common response, which we hope will always be the most correct.
+
+See variables.tf for variables including the list of sources we can check.
+
+See outputs.tf for outputs.
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+terraform {
+  required_providers {
+    curl = {
+      version = "1.0.2"
+      source  = "anschoewe/curl"
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+# curl is the default method
+data "curl" "myip" {
+  for_each    = var.data_provider == "curl" ? toset(var.myip_service_urls) : []
+  http_method = "GET"
+  uri         = each.key
+}
+
+# but we can use http if you prefer
+data "http" "myip" {
+  for_each           = var.data_provider == "http" ? toset(var.myip_service_urls) : []
+  url                = each.key
+  method             = "GET"
+  request_timeout_ms = 500
+}
+
+locals {
+
+  # build a list of responses
+  service_response_bodies = var.data_provider == "curl" ? values(data.curl.myip)[*].response : values(data.http.myip)[*].response_body
+
+  # remunge it without whitespace as a list of strings
+  split_output = split(",", replace(trimspace(join(",", local.service_response_bodies)), "/\\s/", ""))
+
+  # we test responses for valid v4 or v6
+  ipv4_matches = [
+    for cidr in local.split_output : cidr
+    if can(cidrnetmask("${cidr}/32"))
+  ]
+  ipv6_matches = [
+    for cidr in local.split_output : cidr
+    if can(cidrhost("${cidr}/128", 0))
+  ]
+
+  # what follows is a really long winded version of uniq -c | sort -n
+  ipv4_index_list    = [for index, item in local.ipv4_matches : length([for i in slice(local.ipv4_matches, 0, index + 1) : i if i == item])]
+  ipv4_joined_index  = zipmap(local.ipv4_matches, local.ipv4_index_list)
+  ipv4_reverse_index = { for k, v in local.ipv4_joined_index : v => k... }
+  ipv4_most_common_response = local.ipv4_reverse_index != {} ? lookup(
+    local.ipv4_reverse_index,
+    element(
+      sort(keys(local.ipv4_reverse_index)),
+      length(local.ipv4_reverse_index) - 1
+    )
+  ) : []
+
+  # uniq -c | sort -n again but for ipv6
+  ipv6_index_list    = [for index, item in local.ipv6_matches : length([for i in slice(local.ipv6_matches, 0, index + 1) : i if i == item])]
+  ipv6_joined_index  = zipmap(local.ipv6_matches, local.ipv6_index_list)
+  ipv6_reverse_index = { for k, v in local.ipv6_joined_index : v => k... }
+  ipv6_most_common_response = local.ipv6_reverse_index != {} ? lookup(
+    local.ipv6_reverse_index,
+    element(
+      sort(keys(local.ipv6_reverse_index)),
+      length(local.ipv6_reverse_index) - 1
+    )
+  ) : []
+
+}
+
+# See outputs.tf for where we spit out the winners
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+
+output "ipv4_matches" {
+  value = local.ipv4_matches
+}
+
+output "ipv6_matches" {
+  value = local.ipv6_matches
+}
+
+output "ipv4_most_common_response" {
+  value = join("", local.ipv4_most_common_response)
+}
+
+output "ipv6_most_common_response" {
+  value = join("", local.ipv6_most_common_response)
+}
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+variable "myip_service_urls" {
+  default = [
+    "https://api.seeip.org",
+    "https://ipinfo.io/ip",
+    "https://ifconfig.co",
+    "https://icanhazip.com",
+    "https://api.ipify.org",
+    "https://ifconfig.me",
+    "https://ipecho.net/plain",
+    "https://ifconfig.io",
+    "http://eth0.me/",
+    "https://ident.me",
+    "https://ipv4.ident.me",
+  ]
+}
+
+variable "data_provider" {
+  default     = "curl"
+  description = "(curl) or (http) provider are both supported."
+}
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