Dennis Myers wrote:
On Sunday 21 November 2004 02:19 pm, Merlin Zener wrote:
Hello,
someone sent me this site
http://www.auditmypc.com/
so I thought I'd have a look; I did the first firewall test and they
said:
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Notice!
Our system detects your internal IP address as 203.172.36.52 and your
external address as 208.147.1.1. Your internal IP should be hidden
whereas your external is always exposed.
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So what should I do about this?
What's the difference between an internal and an external IP?
And anyhow, I thought I had set my IP to 192.168.0.20???
Running Mandrake 10.0 straight off the CDs, not messed with any security
setting at all.
TIA for all advice...
Check your Internal address. This looks like some kind of mess with your mind
to buy our product kind of thing. Also go into MCC and see if shorewall is
running. If not and you are on a stand alone always on computer I would start
it up and configure it or just use the defaults to begin. That should stop
anyones ability to see an internal address. I understood that internal
addresses were never observable due to the nature of internet addressing.
Somebody enlighten us if I'm wrong.
The inside address is visable to Java & Java scripts running on your
machine. Now, it doesn't do the attacker any good if your inside
address is in one of the "private" IP ranges. It also doesn't do the
attacker any good if there is a firewall between you and the Internet.
(Unless they crack the firewall first, and then you have other
problems.) Besides, you have to visit the attacker's web site, and run
the Java code before they can get the IP address. But it sure does a
good job of promotine there product with the way they present it. I
like the bit where they say to look at the source code for the page. I
need to go back to the first page, and look at the source to see what
the Java script looks like...
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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