can someone help me please

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Anytime you establish an internet connection with another computer or server they HAVE to know your IP address in order to reply to you. E.G your IP address starts with 144.xxx.xxx.xxx; in order for you to see the HipForums, the hipforums server had to be able to send the images back to you.

If you directly connect to someone else they have to know how to reply to you by IP.

If you connect to a server it is up to the server if they make your IP info available to other users or not, e.g. hipforums does not publish your IP info to other members.

Your options around this are basically to not make the connection from YOUR computer, but to have something else do it for you...this is a PROXY server, you connect to the proxy server, tell it what you want, then it goes out and gets it for you FROM IT, then returns it to you.

You can also NAT your IP address, but if you are at home that won't really help you, as you probally dont have a pool of addresses to choose from provided by your ISP.

 

hey thanx alot. i will do a search for proxy servers online and read about it. i dont talk to people in pm in chat so this guy is getting my ip from the room when i enter. i checked with my isp and they have a fixed ip they use so i cant do anything there.

 

actually i understand alot more about ip's now since u wrote all that. i didnt think it worked like that but i didnt know anything. i just thought that u connected to the internet with ur isp and it assigned an ip and that was it. that someone when they get ur ip they go into ur computer or scan ur computer. i didnt know that everytime u talk or post a message ur ip is seen in ways in which u described.

 

I know what a proxy does...since you explained it but how do you know if you have a proxy server or not?

 

Generally if you dont know you got one, you don't got one...you generally have to purposfully use one...

There are all sorts of proxy servers, some for just web browsers, some for irc clients, some for pretty much anything...proxy servers are generally not 'open'; meaning that they usually require an account to use...an OPEN proxy server allows anyone to use it, and generally get exploited a lot by people trying to 'hide' behide them.

If you are on a private network (most corporate/school environments) theres about a 60/40 chance (40%) that you will be using a proxy server for your internet access, 59% you will be behind a NAT router, and 1% (really less) that you are on a public address.

Some proxy servers are commercialiazed (see http://www.megaproxy.com) but any of the GOOD ones are generally a hack somewhere.

 

okay, thanks.