[3903] in WWW Security List Archive
proxies and ip addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ([Chaos InC. Rhyme])
Fri Dec 27 07:12:54 1996
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:27:40 +0300
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: "[Chaos InC. Rhyme]" <kuru@geocities.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
I don't know if this has ever been posted about here or not, but I wanted to
ask anyways. In certain servers it would scan for your IP address and then
log it in a file (for security reasons I guess). But, when using a proxy not
of your own ISP's then it would find a different IP address for you.
For example, if my ip address is 193.188.84.123 (which is in .bh) and i'm
using a proxy in .uk then it would catch a totally different ip address. Is
that retraceable ? In other words, if any illegal operation was done using
this way is it possible for me, the server, to trace down the actual
original ip address?
Thank you.
Moe Elzubeir
