- Privacy/Security: How to change my IP address daily or weekly on DSL
- Posted by #2 Aluxe on October 19th, 2006
On 18 Oct 2006 19:05:09 -0700, I_AM_Raptor@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi I_AM_Raptor,
I do appreciate your honing of our analogies. With analogies, we can
communicate. For example, I've shown (I hope) with my basic analogies that
not everyone who desires a base modicum of privacy is to be automatically
considered overly paranoid.
Everyone is confusing one key point. I am not trying to hide from my ISP by
changing my IP address! I agree even before the first word was posted that
the IPS knows who I am at all moments (heck, I pay the bill with a check
that has my name and address on it). Anyone who insists on repeating that
changing the IP address doesn't hide me from the ISP is just plain off
base.
It's sort of like having an (IP) address on your driver license and then
changing it. You're never going to hide from the police by changing your
address on your driver's license but the local store that wrote it down
when you cashed your check now has a harder time casually finding you from
a simple (and all too common) database search.
That's all I was trying to do by changing my router's IP address (which
turns out to be the IP address attached as the NNTP posting host no matter
what I do).
If someone technical here can show me how to CHANGE MY NNTP POSTING HOST,
well then, THAT would be an accomplishment worthy of the discussion!
- Posted by Harald Andersen on October 19th, 2006
"#2 Aluxe" <nottelling@hotmail.com>
wrote in message news:1x0ddc5p4kf6z.1mldsw3zfaym2$.dlg@40tude.net.. .
Thats EASY !
Change your gateway's IP address,
as that is what your NTTP server see as your NNTP posting host.
The gateway IP, will be your "point of contact" IP address, for the
device terminating your ISP to yourself.
End of discussion! ;-)
/HC
btw:
I assume your ISP provides you with a dynamic IP, using DHCP.
Most DHCP servers will remember your MACadress, and offer you
tha same IP adress again if you simply switch off/on, you will have to
_release _ your current IP, and /request/ a new IP for it to change.
- Posted by #3 Aluxe on October 19th, 2006
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:13:13 +0200, Harald Andersen wrote:
Hi Harald Andersen,
If by "gateway", you mean "modem" (I have DHCP DSL PPPoE), then that is
what we were doing all along way before this thread ever started.
I have a new IP address today but the last test didn't work (changing the
"connect on demand" setting. But, I might have performed the test wrong so
I'll try again tonight.
If you know how to "change your gateway's address" without powering down
the router ... that would answer the original question nicely.
- Posted by Harald Andersen on October 20th, 2006
"#3 Aluxe" <aluxe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:lhtlzwhl0etl.pnhihrts7g7e$.dlg@40tude.net...
Refresh my memory (as I dont want to re-read the complete thread) :
1 - What is the name/model of your modem ?
2 - What is the name/model of your router ?
3 - Please open a command window, give the command :
"IPCONFIG / ALL" and post the full info it provides.
(This is related to my last paragraph in my first post).
btw:
If you want more "privacy", you might look into this :
http://www.iopus.com/ipig but remember if you use this,
or any other form of proxy, your NNTP server might
want you to autenthificate using username/password.......
/HC
