Re: How do I stop my internal IP address being viewable externally?

From: Anthony Boynes (nobody_at_this.address)
Date: 11/30/04


Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:26:48 -0700

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:47:32 +1030, "Tony Cooke" <firesoft@tpg.com.au>
wrote:

>Hi all.
>
>I went to a firewall testing site and ran a check over my IP address and the
>first problem that came back was my internal IP address was viewable to the
>site.
>
>I know this is a NAT problem but my ADSL (modem/router/firewall) manual is
>fairly light-on.
>
>Does anyone know what I need to set up to fix this (without having to
>specify my config, etc).
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>All the best,
>Tony
>

Your internal address was viewable by which site? I seem to recall
that there was a site which used javascript to inaccurately describe
such a situation, making it appear that the internal address was
viewable to the public when in fact it was not.



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