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Obtaining an ip address

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by cmann 1 view

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Is there anyway that someone can obtain my ip address. I know that they can see it in the header of my emails, they can see it in netstat if we have a connection, they can see it if they have access to my computer at the time that i am accessing the internet, they can see it from webpage logs. is there any other way that someone might obtain this info and if there is, then are they ways to prevent this from happening via programs and configurations.

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by chris a

Your ISP will also have a record of you IP when you are online. If they are running a finger server than people can use it to see who is online.
Most ISP's will use DHCP with some using a perniment IP lease. IF this happens anyone that can access the IP table will be able to gain your name and IP.
This means hackers can get your IP.
Time to go, more later.

Chris

by rzan

If you are concerned about someone obtaining your IP address and possibly hacking their way into your PC, then I suggest you obtain somekind of firewall, hardware preferrably, to hide your machine from the Internet. A firewall has two interfaces, one public and one private. The public interface would get its address from your ISP, while the private interface will be configured by you to have any address you wish. At worst, hackers will obtain the public IP address of your firewall, but with proper configuration, your firewall will block malicious intrusion attempts such as DoS (Denial of service) attacks, TCP port probes, IP Spoofers, and Netbus trojan virus which allows remote control of your PC via the Internet.

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