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IP Address of the eBay API gateway that services requests

Published: April 30 2009, 4:51:00 PMยทUpdated: September 05 2022, 8:26:35 AM

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Question

How can I find out the IP addresses of the eBay API gateway, so that I can configure my firewall to allow traffic from those IPs?

Answer

Summary

You use the command line function nslookup with the server url, to find the IP addresses from which API requests are serviced. Here are some examples of how you can use this command:

Trading API:
nslookup api.ebay.com

Shopping API:
nslookup open.api.ebay.com

You can run these commands periodically to ensure that you have latest IP addresses.

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