On Sunday 21 November 2004 07:02 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 18:07:32 -0600 > > Dennis Myers disseminated the following: > > > 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??? > > <whack> > > > I understood that internal addresses were never observable due to the > > nature of internet addressing. Somebody enlighten us if I'm wrong. > > I was gonna say somethin', but I try not to embarass myself with my > cluelessness more than once a day... > I accidentally deleted the original message but, I also went to the auditmypc site and my internal ip was also visible. I asked the same question in the comp.os.linux.security newsgroup as the original poster, the answer was to turn off java and javascript in my browser. Once I did that my internal ip was no longer visible
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