diff --git a/inxi b/inxi
index 3d01876..c758ca1 100755
--- a/inxi
+++ b/inxi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ########################################################################
 ####  Script Name: inxi
-####  version: 1.7.32
+####  version: 1.7.33
 ####  Date: April 16 2012
 ####  Patch Number: 00
 ########################################################################
@@ -4699,13 +4699,20 @@ get_networking_wan_ip_data()
 	# get ip using wget redirect to stdout. This is a clean, text only IP output url,
 	# single line only, ending in the ip address. May have to modify this in the future
 	# to handle ipv4 and ipv6 addresses but should not be necessary.
-	ip=$( wget -q -O - $WAN_IP_URL | gawk '{
+	# awk has bad regex handling so checking it with grep -E instead
+	# ip=$( echo  2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 | gawk  --re-interval '
+	# ip=$( wget -q -O - $WAN_IP_URL | gawk  --re-interval '
+	ip=$( wget -q -O - $WAN_IP_URL | gawk  --re-interval '
+	{
 		#gsub("\n","",$2")
 		print $NF
 	}' )
-
+	# validate the data
 	if [[ -z $ip ]];then
 		ip='None Detected!'
+	elif [[ -z $( grep -Es \
+	'^([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}|[[:alnum:]]{0,4}:[[:alnum:]]{0,4}:[[:alnum:]]{0,4}:[[:alnum:]]{0,4}:[[:alnum:]]{0,4}:[[:alnum:]]{0,4}:[[:alnum:]]{0,4}:[[:alnum:]]{0,4})$' <<< $ip ) ]];then
+		ip='IP Source Corrupt!'
 	fi
 	echo "$ip"
 	log_function_data "ip: $ip"