Is IP addresses known to everybody?

[weblover50]

Is an IP address known to everybody or can it be kept a secret? I have not studied a great deal about IP addresses and their maintenance.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

IP addresses is how the internet works. You request a page to view and your IP address is used to send you back the page.

What is an IP address? (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/question549.htm)
How Internet Infrastructure Works (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/internet-infrastructure.htm)

[YonCatubig]

It depends, we must the consider the router settings or configuration.. I mean if you are at the office which have many workstations that are connected in one router, most probably the IP of the router or the IP of the ISP are the one that will appear.

[webmaster705]

I want to inform you that we cant be make IP address secret. Because it is detectable by Google spiders.

[kgun]

Here

Getting a visitors real Ip address (http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster-forum/threads/97509-Getting-a-visitors-real-Ip-address.?p=503769)

is a thread that should be of interest to you.

[govindseo]

kgun That is the PHP code to track visitors IP address.
How to prevent our IP to be tracked? some times i was see a a message from my internet service provider that Duplicate IP address Found, some times some buddy hack my IP address and doing any thing using my IP address how do we can prevant this this.

[Tina23]

hi,
how about using hide ip platinum, or ghost surf?

[Rbeer]

my ip address is banned by some websites. How can I solve this problem?

[MDG IT]

Use a proxy, like hotspot shield etc..

[kgun]

sure., ip address will known to everyone...

Did you study this


Here

Getting a visitors real Ip address (http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster-forum/threads/97509-Getting-a-visitors-real-Ip-address.?p=503769)

is a thread that should be of interest to you.

post or only posting to increase your post count?

[realnabster]

IP address can only be seen to networks on which you are connected....it is secret to the network to which you are not connected..

[kgun]

IP address can only be seen to networks on which you are connected....it is secret to the network to which you are not connected..
Why is it interesting on a network you are not connected to

[Nickwell]

Every time you surf the Internet, your IP address is publicly visible to everyone on target network resources, therefore, your actual location and even name and age can be tracked as well. Of course, this costs something (they need to contact web site owner or hosting provider.

[johny28]

use VPN (virtual private network) more secure..
like hidemyass , cyberghost vpn etc

[aimeesparker]

i think ip address can be changed , but dont know how, can some explain this to me.

[aditd]

What your asking is something like: I want to be at a party but but in a form that no one will see me. It's quite impossible and further more the fact that you have a public ip ... there's nothing wrong there. It's a fact, just like people breath air.

[keil85]

IP address is like your personal home address. If you are so worried about people getting see your IP address, you can use some proxy. But that would also confuse some website like Facebook. IP address are required for security purposes.

[kgun]

Use proxy sites or services

Did you read the thread and note this post with the link to a relevant thread


Here

Getting a visitors real Ip address (http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster-forum/threads/97509-Getting-a-visitors-real-Ip-address.?p=503769)

is a thread that should be of interest to you.

or do we face a new thread jumper?

[deepsand]

Every time you surf the Internet, your IP address is publicly visible to everyone on target network resources, ...
Not necessarily true.


... therefore, your actual location and even name and age can be tracked as well.
Non sequitur.

An IP Address does not correspond to a specific physical location and/or person.

[deepsand]

Use proxy sites or services
Only a true anonymizing proxy will shield your IP Address.

[deepsand]

No my dear IP Address cannot be kept secret, all the nodes(PCs) are known by IP Addresses, so are known by an INTERNET Address and that Address is called Internet Protocol(IP).
False, my dear.

There is an important distinction between knowing an IP Address and knowing your IP Address.

Suggest that you study how proxy servers work, and how they can be used to shield your IP Address from others.

[longrange]

does FakeIP work?

[deepsand]

does FakeIP work?
Only if you do not require a response.

[WhiteC]

It's interesting to see that my ip address is actually coming from a location that's not even that close to where I live.

[weegillis]

It's interesting to see that my ip address is actually coming from a location that's not even that close to where I live.

That's because it is leased by your service provider, who could be hundreds or even thousands of miles from where you live.

At the consumer level, there is generally a limited list to choose from, and so we go with the one that gives us the best package. Our connection will likely be to the data center closest to the service area. The IP will be traceable to that data center. They may have specific IP blocks mapped out for each service area, which may narrow down that you live in or near a particular burrough or town.

We do not have IP addresses, our network provider does. We are known to them by our MAC Address, the unique internal address of the network adapter leasing the IP from the ISP, through which we are connected. The MAC Address is tied to customer details that can only be got from a service provider by court order.

[kgun]

There is an important distinction between knowing an IP Address and knowing your IP Address.

Exactly. And if I surfed the web through a proxy server "my" (note the quotes) Ip adress would seem to come from the region where the proxy server is located.

I live in eastern Norway, and I think my dynamic Ip adress come from http://www.nextgentel.no/ located in Wetern Norway 600 Km away.

I recommend that you at least read my thread about your real Ip address before you post. See link above.

[mikmik]

If you have a dynamic IP you can try this:

For Vista (Windows 7 is very similar)
1. Click Start
2. Click All Programs expand the Accessories menu
3. In the Accessories menu, Right Click Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator
4. Type ipconfig /release and hit enter
5. Click Start, Control Panel, and open Network and Sharing Center. Depending on your view, you may have to click Network and Internet before you see the Network and Sharing Center icon
6. From the Tasks menu on the left, choose Manage Network Connections
7. Find and Right click on the active Local Area Connection and choose Properties (If you’re hit with a UAC prompt, choose Continue)
8. Double-click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
9. Click on Use the following IP address
10. Enter a false IP like 123.123.123.123
11. Press Tab and the Subnet Mask section will populate with default numbers
12. Hit OK twice
13. Right click the active Local Area Connection again and choose Properties
14. Double-click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
15. Choose Obtain an IP address automatically
16. Hit OK twice
17. Go to What Is My IP (http://www.whatismyip.com/) to see if you have a new IP address

Read more: http://www.whatismyip.com/faq/how-to-change-your-ip-address.asp#ixzz1SWoXaqt3


It depends how many resources are available but it seems that LulSec and Anonymous have ways of hiding their IPs, so it must be very possible. Even kgun's script won't get it -_^

Realistically, there is software that will hide it, and using a proxy will - all explained above. You've been banned somewhere, though, and if you change or hide your IP, I'm telling!

[kgun]

Even kgun's script won't get it -_^

I know, like I said in my first post in this http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster-forum/threads/110316-Service-that-tells-you-who-is-on-your-website thread.

[deepsand]

If you have a dynamic IP you can try this:

It depends how many resources are available but it seems that LulSec and Anonymous have ways of hiding their IPs, so it must be very possible. Even kgun's script won't get it -_^

Realistically, there is software that will hide it, and using a proxy will - all explained above. You've been banned somewhere, though, and if you change or hide your IP, I'm telling!
That changes only your internal private network address; it has no effect on the external address assigned by your ISP to your gateway device, e.g. your cable/DSL modem.

Your internal address is concatenated with your external address, along with the IP Addresses of any intervening proxy servers, so that the Header of any TCP/IP packet as received by the target server includes a complete chain of addresses from end-to-end.

The only way to defeat this is to use a true anonymizing proxy, which strips from the Header all IP Addresses in the packet it receives from you, and replaces it with an internal private address of its own which it temporarily assigns to you, so as to know to whom to forward the server's response to your request.