[3904] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: proxies and ip addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Camp)
Fri Dec 27 15:59:04 1996
From: Ben Camp <benc@geocel.com>
To: "www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>,
"'[Chaos InC. Rhyme]'" <kuru@geocities.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:36:44 -0600
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
The tracability of the originating IP address would of course depend on =
the logging abilities of the proxy server. There are other identifiers =
that might be found out by the server, such as cookies stored on your =
machine etc..
No matter what the circumstances are, chances are with enough =
effort..any session can be traced back to its originating IP.
Ben Camp
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From: [Chaos InC. Rhyme]
Sent: Friday, December 27, 1996 3:27 AM
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Subject: proxies and ip addresses
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?=20
Thank you.
Moe Elzubeir
