How Do I HIDE My IP Address?

Hi,

The sad fact is that you cannot hide your IP.

The good news is that there are ways where you can "hide" your IP by connecting to the net through a router.

The simplest example is if you have a router at home which has an IP and you connect to it via a computer with another IP. You privet computer IP is kept inside the router and all your WAN (external) traffic holds your router IP.

The second way is to connect through external proxies. In this way you connect to a remote system (using a VPN for example) and this connection lets you connect to the net using its WAN connection.

I know it is not straightforward as you asked for, but its the shortest answer I could think of.

I hope this helps you,

Ziv

Answering you questions one at a time.

1. I don't know of any public proxy, but if you are a student in an university for example this can serve you.

2. If you have a router that your internal address (IPs) are separated from your external IP and although your router IP is public, no external computer can access your internal IP (unless your router is hacked). In general you can have whatever IP you want, but it is generally true that people use the 192.168.10.x or 10.0.0.x address ranges.

In the second case only your router gets a legal address and it has a feature which translate the proper packet's IP to its destination.

Ziv

A Proxy or VPN or any other "tunnel" is a computer that you send all your internet traffic to before it goes out to the internet. All it does is fake it that your computer is on the same network as the proxy computer, and not reveal your current IP address to people. This is a safer way to browse and check email when you're on public networks such as wifi hotspots where you dont know who's running the internet connection. It can also prevent your current IP from being tracked, but unfortunately the proxy/VPN computer will be tracked. There are no real trustworthy public proxy and vpn servers, as these are usually set up by an institution for their clients (ie: schools and businesses) for secure connections. A public proxy kinda defeats the purpose. Therefore, your usage and IP address will be tracked, regardless of the use of proxies, since they will know the time of connection and the proxy IP, and ultimately there's a log on the proxy computer that you were the account logged in and using that IP at that time...etc, etc, etc...

That blocking would be a feature of the blog service. Look through the account/profile options.

It is not possible to hide your IP address. Whatever you're connecting to on the internet, whether it's a web site, a blog, or an anonymizing proxy, will know your address.

americanMac wrote:
Hi,

I really would like to know a good program to use (or buy) that will securely block my ip address. I don't want my address to show up in the stats for websites and blogs (so they wont know my location, etc).

You don't need a program, you need a router. All modern routers have NAT, Network Address Translation and convert your real IP into a local one.
You can ask your ISP to give you a dynamic IP so that each time you connect you have a new public IP address.

I suspect americanMac is wanting to mask his external wide-area-network public IP address from being added to servers' logs to which he connects.

americanMac: you might want to check out http://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en and/or http://www.torproject.org/easy-download.html.en and/or http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17679/tor

Bear in mind that if you use a proxy, the owner of the proxy has your IP logged even though others won't see your assigned IP. You don't know who is running the proxy.