Re: [newbie] security - should I be worried? ["Your internal IP should be hidden"]

2004-11-22 Thread Dennis Duffner
At 09:06 PM 11/21/2004, you wrote: On Sunday 21 November 2004 08:02 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > > > 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 mysel

Re: [newbie] security - should I be worried? ["Your internal IP should be hidden"]

2004-11-22 Thread Merlin Zener
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 08:02, JoeHill wrote: [...snip] > The question is, is Merlin using a dedicated firewall/router/NAT of some sort > or > not? not that I know of. It's a single machine connected to the net by dialup; I just installed Mandrake 10.0 straight off the CDs. I don't recall any que

Re: [newbie] security - should I be worried? ["Your internal IP should be hidden"]

2004-11-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
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: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Notice! Our system d

Re: [newbie] security - should I be worried? ["Your internal IP should be hidden"]

2004-11-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 21 November 2004 08:02 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > > > 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

Re: [newbie] security - should I be worried? ["Your internal IP should be hidden"]

2004-11-21 Thread Chris
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

Re: [newbie] security - should I be worried? ["Your internal IP should be hidden"]

2004-11-21 Thread JoeHill
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??? > I understood that internal addresses were never observ

Re: [newbie] security - should I be worried? ["Your internal IP should be hidden"]

2004-11-21 Thread Dennis Myers
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: > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Notice! > > Our syst

[newbie] security - should I be worried? ["Your internal IP should be hidden"]

2004-11-21 Thread Merlin Zener
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: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Notice! Our system detects your internal IP address as 203.172.36.52 and your external addr