Questions tagged [ip]
The Internet Protocol (IP) is the main protocol for sending packets accross the internet. It belongs to the internet layer in the internet protocol suite with the variants IPv4 and IPv6.
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Do I need an IP whitelist on top of a VPN?
My company requires me to access resources through a VPN connection -- specifically, an OpenVPN client configured to require a password plus an authenticator token. But the company also restricts ...
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Is IP routing subject to data transfer laws? [migrated]
Some regions and territories have data sovereignty and localisation laws that prevent, for example, personal data from being transferred outside of that jurisdiction. Do such laws, if they even ...
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Could a public IP with blocked public inbound/outbound traffic be a risk?
If we have a device that for some reason needs a public IP address and if at the same time the device should only be accessible from within a private network: Could the fact that the public IP of the ...
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What is the easiest and most effective way to filter IP-only accesses?
On MacOS and Windows 11, I’ve repeatedly seen direct IP accesses to *.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com domains (discovered via PTR DNS lookups). DNS filters like NextDNS presumably don’t see this ...
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Block specific spam ip address to my websites [duplicate]
I have a website. It receives visits from about 50000 different ip addresses a day, I know it does not provide 100% protection, but I am thinking of doing an ip block operation on harmful ip addresses ...
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Can DNS providers know my IP address?
I know how domain name system (DNS) works a bit. But don't know if providers of public DNS like Google or Cloudflare can know my IP address.
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What information can you get with only a private IP address?
I found a private IP address displayed on a video. What can you learn from a private IP address, if anything at all?
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How do I find out what country did an email originate from? [duplicate]
Out of curiosity I came across some emails in my inbox that I really wanted to know where they where sent from. Not just Google's or Yahoo's service's address, but the actual country the sender was in ...
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Shouldn't IPsec be an application layer protocol since it is "over UDP"?
I am reading about IPsec and am confused of what exactly is "IPsec", is it a network layer protocol, or is it a technology that uses involves multiple protocols? All web searches tell me ...
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Can my ISP see request data being posted to a website when a DNS leak occurs
From what I understand, the ISP can see the host you're trying to connect to in the event of a DNS leak. But does that mean they can see the data being sent like the requests body? or even headers?
Or ...
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Does Google use an IP address to identify a user? [duplicate]
I used Google Search in Chrome incognito mode without logging in to my account, so no cookies were stored. However, somehow I instantly got a bunch of ads relevant to my search on Instagram. There ...
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Can't ping my public IP from external network [closed]
I'm new to networking and I'm trying to scan my external IP from an external network.
I first tried finding my public IP from whatismyIP.com. I assumed that my public IP would be my router's IP, but ...
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Can someone access my computer after I clicked a Grabify link? [duplicate]
I accidentally clicked a grabify link and the person said that he got my IP address, he said that he can see through my camera and spy on my online activity and can take my data and files from my ...
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Which IP address would be most safe and suitable to use as a placeholder in a live system?
Is there a best practice IP address that is safe to use as a placeholder in a live public system on the Internet?
e.g. In a similar capacity, the domain name example.com is reserved and can be safely ...
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How do hackers find the ip address of router or networks they want to hack? [duplicate]
I've heard news of hackers in different countries being able to infiltrate networks in other countries. What I'm wondering is how these hackers find the ip addresses (without the use of phishing) of ...
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Staying anonymous while using BurpSuite
While testing any site using BurpSuite, if we send any request it will use BurpSuite HTTP "Proxying through BurpSuite" but still we are not fully anonymous, it will still use our original ...
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Do ISP's start data retention period after unsubscribing from their service? [closed]
Whenever I go online and read about data retention periods specifically for IP address information like IP assignments and session history, I see data retention periods ranging from 180 days to 12 ...
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Police have seized phone regarding sent emails [duplicate]
The police in UK have my phone. I have sent some emails I shouldn't have to an ex. I have deleted the gmail account they were sent from. The phone police have isn't the one they were sent from. I ...
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Tracking someones location from social media messages
I lack knowledge about IP addresses or how the internet works. Let's assume that after I wrote a message to someone on social media, they just felt the need to track me down within a week, is it ...
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UDP Port Scan Attack from a previously used IP address
Yesterday my internet connection is interrupted and I checked the logs. In logs, I saw 2 UDP Port Scan Attack happened a week ago. After a little bit of research, I convinced myself that it is common ...
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IP address from headers (Gmail/outlook mobile app) [duplicate]
My question isn't a duplicate. I know that the IP is leaked in the computer desktop version of outlook. But from I'm able to tell, the mobile version didn't leak it.
I need to make sure that I'm right ...
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I clicked a Grabify link, is my whole life in danger? [duplicate]
I clicked a Grabify link from Discord as I did not know what a Grabify link is. When I found out it was an IP logger, I panicked. And I already tried rebooting my wi-fi but the IP didn't change, and ...
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Can a simcard's public IP be accessed?
I am in a discussion with someone about IoT devices.
We use private IPs for simcards, but the other organisation is using public IPs.
I think it is possible for a hacker to access these public IPs to ...
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Can someone spoof its IP address to mine when sending emails?
Can someone spoof its IP address to mine when sending emails?
I know we can see the IP address of the sender in the email header. If someone had my IP, can he/she use it to show in email headers?
Even ...
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Why does MS Teams establishing outbound connection towards malicious IP? [closed]
I'm wondering how come an internal "Teams.exe" can make outbound connections to a malicious IP, 132.147.119[.]217 (ISP: ViewQwest Pte Ltd) that was flagged as malicious and also was involved ...
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How does a website figure out the user's identity, even if I am using new IP and new browser cookie? [duplicate]
Background: I recently came across a child porn website and by US law I am obliged to report it. I've decided to collect evidence for a formal report; however, I don't want to reveal my identity due ...
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How to find out what the subnet is that is attacking me
I have a webserver and mailserver that I use for fun/learning/breaking. There is only one user who should be logging in; me.
I notice in the postfix logs and HIDS alerts I get a lot of SASL failures ...
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How can I prevent visitors from exposing their personal IP addresses to my server?
I'm running an Apache server on an Ubuntu EC2 instance for some online friends, but they don't want me to be able to identify them in real-life. The hosted webapps require login, so it'd be easy for ...
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Block all windows system outgoing internet connections but allow LAN on Private and VPN on Public
I have several windows PC connected to my mikrotik. I use basic features: file sharing, playing games with friends on home LAN and want to connect internet only through VPN (openVPN client).
But I am ...
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Does Protonmail save MAC addresses? [closed]
I received an "automated abuse detection" warning email to my Protonmail account due to bulk sign-ups. Does that mean that all the emails are associated with one another? My brother made a ...
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How secure is my IP address?
I have a public facing IP address setup at a VM in the Google Cloud Platform.
I am wondering, if it is possible as an outsider to take away this public IP, or pretend another computer is this public ...
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How I can access to home CCTVS form laptop? [closed]
I want to see my CCTV camers at home, when i am not home, but I know the Publick Ip address and NAT address (private addreess) of CCTV registrator.
Manifacture of Camers is Hikvision
home I am using ...
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What does a domain seizure entail?
For context, I have limited knowledge pertaining to computer networks, and the recent seizure of z-library brought up some questions I am unsure of, and I can't seem to find much information online.
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How to remotely check if SSL 3.0 is enabled on server?
I would like to remotely verify whether SSL 3.0 is running on several servers.
Previously, this command:
openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 -ssl3
Would have worked but now I am getting the ...
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How to access web content protected by network ip? [closed]
I am testing a website that allows content fetch only when you access it from an IP a certain Wi-Fi network. However if you want to access the website from different network, you get the response of
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Can someone find out my other websites based on the IP address of one of my websites? [duplicate]
As far as I know, the IP address of any website is detectable by a simple ping test.
Say I host several websites on a given webhost with a single IP.
If someone finds out the IP of one of my websites, ...
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How to determine what process accessed the web browser
I received a CrowdStrike Alert where a particular user was using Chrome and the process was connected to the web browser but the user does not know what he did to connect to the malicious IP address ...
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Using IP for one request (one time) protection
I have an endpoint that accepts data as signed PASETO tokens. It has one problem - if someone "cracks" the TLS encryption or this signed token leaks then everyone can use it as long as the ...
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TCP with IP Spoofing, Is It Really Impossible?
I was reading: IP Spoofing with real IP when TCP 3-way handshake has been made
Where the answer says:
First of all, every TCP packet has a sequential identifier, which
starts at a random position. (...
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Is it possible to get "real" IP from a host machine which is using a SSL-VPN connection?
We'd like to obtain the public IP of a user that connects via SSL VPN, the one that the user would have if he didn't connect that way.
But this looks impossible to do, if we use web services like the ...
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IPv6 address leaking despite VPN?
Given that commands like ifconfig or ip address don't require root privileges, apps can access information about ip address. If you use ipv4, you are normally behind NAT and apps would get an address ...
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Why is my IP address hidden over HTTPS but not HTTP while I'm behind a proxy?
I am trying to connect to a supplier API but they have a whitelist of the IPs which can consume their API. I gave them my server IP so that they could add it to the whitelist but it is still not ...
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TLS certificate with private IP address [duplicate]
I am trying to get an Apache server running over HTTPS on a local network with an IP address 192.168..
And our requirement is to make this local server secure. (no outside network / internet ...
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How risky is it to let someone know the name of your Windows PC?
I have here a situation where if I share this file with someone on the internet, the file may contain: 1. data pointing to the directories where it is stored on my computer, along with 2. the name of ...
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Is different X-Forwarded-For values per site an indicator for something malicious?
I am using a mobile ISP to access the internet. I noticed something really weird: most sites (e.g. www.whatismyip.com, https://www.iplocation.net/http-browser-header) report my IP as let's say IP A: ...
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Are country IP address blocks officially standardised and can they be reliably used for access control?
I was setting up firewalld on an enterprise server and came across their concept of firewall zones. I figured I can easily use them and their source property to restrict access to SSH to only the ...
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Is a VPN effective when connected to WiFi network that requires authentication?
I pay monthly for a VPN. However, I browse online while connected to my university WiFi which requires authentication to use. The WiFi is open (no password directly) but when someone connects to it a ...
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Would storing the users IP address in a session token be more secure?
In a web app, would storing a users IP address in a session be more secure then storing it without it? I think that if I store a JWT in their cookies that includes their IP address for session ...
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Are there any security issues with getting the IP address of a user? [duplicate]
So I've found a way to get the IP address of a user on a popular website without taking them out of said website (i.e. without making them click any links) by making them (the user) send a request to ...
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Why don’t routers request permission when attempting to connect to an unknown address? (Or why do they still assume every connection is trustworthy?)
I’m imagining a system similar to UAC on Windows but implemented at the router level for IP addresses instead. (Or AS numbers, BGP numbers, Port number, etc…)
Naturally this makes router setup ...
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