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What does it mean if a public IP address looks like a private IP address?
For example, I go to http://whatismyipaddress.com/ and it tells me that my IP address is 192.X.Y.Z. What does this mean? Isn't that a private IP address? How can I find my real public IP address?
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Is blocking / allowing by IP using .htaccess (or equivalent) enough to secure a resource on a web server?
Currently in the process of setting up a web infrastructure to host my web application where security is the most important factor and I need to be able to allow only specific IP addresses to a ...
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Blocking Incoming IP With Win 7 Firewall
This question was asked before, but the answer is not working for me and the rules of this forum say do not respond to answers, so I am asking again. I went through the following process on the Win 7 ...
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Source port 443?
I'm might embarrass myself with this question, because of something really obvious, but I'm puzzled.
My home broadband firewall log says it has been blocking incoming TCP traffic with a source (!) ...
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Source Address / Source Port vs Destination Address / Destination Port
I am new to TCP/IP and trying hard to learn basics. Well, I really wonder about inbound rules and outbound rules of firewall and concept of source address port, destination address port.
For example, ...
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Remote Desktop IP conflict
We have several outside users who connect to our server using the external IP. Everything has been configured correctly and it has worked for several years.
Two days ago we had a test firewall (new ...
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connect through a remote pc to take IP address
We have a static IP address. This IP address is allowed to pass some of our customer's firewall. Problem is when we are outside the company, we are on our laptop. that uses a Internet key with dynamic ...
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Blocking incoming connections from IP in windows XP
I have a request to block any incoming connections from a block of IP addresses but they would like to leave the outgoing traffic alone (no block). Is there a way to do this in Windows XP? The ...
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How to find CIDR subnet for a public Internet IP address?
Usually I do not worry about subnet of an IP address on the public Internet, but after I began using Amazon EC2 firewall, it got me thinking.
EC2 firewall configuration requires an IP to be written ...
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Windows Firewall Block Inbound External IP
I am trying to block 1 ip address from connecting to my computer. However I am confused by this screen:
If the rule is set to block ip, but I cannot get a way to allow local ips. Is there a way to ...
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Blocking the unwanted Web Traffic [closed]
There are some trackers most of the times you could see they are running on your PC,
Dependent on the softwares, services, Addons, OPSys, ... much more
some of the major trackers could be 'Google', '...
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How to append netsh firewall rules, not just replace
I am using a script to set firewall rules in netsh.
netsh.exe advfirewall firewall set rule name="Block External IP's" new remoteip="$($ipArray[0])"
I thought that set was used so that it would ...
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Can't route into WAN with IPCop Router
i try to setup a IPCOP Router but i can't access the WAN from LAN but the LAN from WAN works fine. Example:
WAN IP from IPCOP 192.168.1.130/26
WAN IP aliase from IPCOP 192.168.1.131 ... 190 /26
WAN ...
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Use Shorewall to port-forward requests based on the domain requested to different servers
How can I get my firewall to port forward traffic that is comming into different domain to different servers.
So I have two web servers. Each one hosts different domains on different servers/IP:
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How to make any IP accessible outside the network
Is it possible to make my internal IP accessible outside the network? Something like 192.168.x.xxx.
If I try my external IP, I get redirected to the website of the company. I'm on Windows and I'm ...
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