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how do i find what my ip address is for people to access my website from outside of my home network. someone told me to do a command prompt with \'netstat -an\' but the ip address that show up there when typed into IE is google.com. should i run apache and then load http://localhost and try to find the IP address? sometimes with \'netstat -an\' i get a *:* for the foreign address, does this mean i cant view it for privacy/security/encryption reasons or something?