Question about IP addresses

massahwahl

massahwahl

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Can someone clarify how ip addresses work? Is specific to a single computer or to a group of networked computers?

The reason I ask is I belong to a political forum for our local government and use a work account to contact people for iterviews. I wanted to comment as an annonymous person on a topic with a different account but wanted to make sure there's no way my personal comments could be traced back to my work account.

The website has ip banned users before for breaking forum rules so that's I'm worried my accounts would somehow become connected.
 
Do what?

I'm not asking to break the rules I just don't want my work account associated with my personal account. How is that against the forum rules? The work account is mutual among our news department so my name is not on it and its not like I'm having multiple accounts.

No offense but you sort of jumped to conclussions...
 
Maybe I should clarify a little farther... Our news department has a single account we all use to contact posters on this forum for interviews. If I set up a personal account, will it show up as the same ip address if I check both accounts from my computer? Or should I use a different computer for my personal account?
 
Is that allowed though? I figured the website couls tell someone was behind a proxy. Thanks for the link and I might try but I guess my real question is just if using two accounts on the same computer could be traceable?
 
ukulele_ninja said:
Can someone clarify how ip addresses work? Is specific to a single computer or to a group of networked computers?

The reason I ask is I belong to a political forum for our local government and use a work account to contact people for iterviews. I wanted to comment as an annonymous person on a topic with a different account but wanted to make sure there's no way my personal comments could be traced back to my work account.

The website has ip banned users before for breaking forum rules so that's I'm worried my accounts would somehow become connected.
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There is a single IP address that is assigned to your modem, if you have your modem attached to a router then every computer on that network will be sharing the same external IP. However every computer inside the network has an internal IP that is specific to that machine, the internal IP is only visible from within the network.
 
[-0MEGA-];1032689 said:
There is a single IP address that is assigned to your modem, if you have your modem attached to a router then every computer on that network will be sharing the same external IP. However every computer inside the network has an internal IP that is specific to that machine, the internal IP is only visible from within the network.
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gotcha! thats what i was afraid of...

guess my political viewpoints had better wait :cool:
 
yeah its called NAT

for the internal side non-routable IPs are used like 192.168.x

so anyone on your LAN would appear as the same IP to a website

also most good forums etc.. block users whcih use proxies (they have a blacklist of the proxy ips) as it is commonly used by spammers
 
yeah its called NAT

for the internal side non-routable IPs are used like 192.168.x

so anyone on your LAN would appear as the same IP to a website

also most good forums etc.. block users whcih use proxies (they have a blacklist of the proxy ips) as it is commonly used by spammers
 
jdbennet said:
yeah its called NAT

for the internal side non-routable IPs are used like 192.168.x

so anyone on your LAN would appear as the same IP to a website

also most good forums etc.. block users whcih use proxies (they have a blacklist of the proxy ips) as it is commonly used by spammers
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thats what i figured.
 
ukulele_ninja said:
gotcha! thats what i was afraid of...

guess my political viewpoints had better wait :cool:
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How important is this to you? ENuff to spend a few bucks? Get a VPS server. Then from work you remote access the server and surf from the server to the sites you want post on. Since you will be remote access you will be behind the IP of the VPS. Different class C and range of ips. Problem solved. I have a vps with Server Intellect. Now granted a pay a bit more for it, but I host all my websites on it (30 or so plus friends and family) so it ends up being cheaper. It is managed too so if I mess it up, Server Intellect will fix it. Just a thought for ya!:D
 
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Any external ip address can be tracked to your address if you as using it.

Internal ip address like 192.168.*.* is internal and only people inside the network can track this

forums will look at the external ip and no matter what you do this can be tracked depending on how good you are and/or the people you know!

If you want to hide your ip address just to post something, it must be bad so dont even try it!!

not worth it mate

Good luck
 
IP Address is Unique

Every Computer has its own unique IP address, a person can change the IP address of a computer but no two computers can have a same IP address...
 
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