X-Nico

8 unusual facts about IP address


Bot herder

A bot herder usually uses a pseudonym to keep themselves anonymous, and may use proxy servers, shell accounts and bouncers to conceal their IP address thus maintaining anonymity.

IP block

IP blocking, the banning of outside connections from certain IP addresses or ranges of them

Is Anyone Up?

Hunter Moore states that he takes legal precautions before uploading people onto the site, initially verifying the age of the people submitted through social networking sites and sends the IP information of people who submit photos of underage individuals to a lawyer in Las Vegas who turns it over to law enforcement.

Lost Experience

The website (which was identified earlier as sharing IP address with thehansofoundation.org) features open-registration accounts to a video sequence editor.

Screen Sharing

Because Screen Sharing is a VNC client, it may also be used to control any computer running a VNC server if the IP address of the target computer is known and accessible.

SecureDrop

The news organization does not record any information regarding the uploader i.e. IP address, or information about the physical computer used.

TweenTribune

1. Local and national advertising is targeted demographically, based on the appeal of the content to a youth audience, and geographically, with specific local ads served up based on the IP address of the user.

YouPorn

Arcor lifted the block on September 17 because the IP address-based filter which had been set up for YouPorn also affected other sites.


Blocking of YouTube videos in Germany

A common way of viewing blocked videos in Germany is to use browser add-ons that fake a foreign IP address, which are available for all common browsers and Spotify, in some cases these add-ons even come prebundled with the browser setup.

Cyril Houri

Houri has designed IP address geolocation, WiFi and cellular positioning technologies, and has testified as an expert witness on location-based technology in LICRA vs. Yahoo!.

Link protection

Survivability can be addressed in many layers in a network and protection can be performed at the physical layer (SONET/SDH, Optical Transport Network), Layer 2 (Ethernet, MPLS) and Layer 3 (IP).

NTP pool

Joining the pool requires at least a broadband connection to the Internet, a static IP address, and accurate time from another source (for example from another NTP server, from a DCF77 receiver, WWVB receiver or a GPS receiver).

Pseudonymity

It is possible, in theory, to create an unlinkable Wikipedia pseudonym by using an Open proxy, a Web server that disguises the user's IP address.

Shared web hosting service

In name-based virtual hosting, also called shared IP hosting, the virtual hosts serve multiple hostnames on a single machine with a single IP address.


see also

Criticism of Yahoo!

Yahoo! Holdings (the Hong Kong subsidiary of Yahoo) told the Chinese government that the IP address used to send the email was registered by the Hunan newspaper that Shi Tao worked for.

Holger Voss

Voss also claimed that Internet service provider T-Online saved his dynamic IP address, which was turned over to law enforcement agencies without a judge's order, for several months in disagreement with German laws (which only allow the saving of IP addresses for as long as is necessary for billing), and initiated legal action in a separate case which he won January 25, 2006.

Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia

The MediaWiki software that Wikipedia runs on can interpret X-Forwarded-For (XFF) headers, allowing Wikipedia to identify a user's main IP address rather than the proxy IP address, allowing the ability to block proxy users individually by their client's IP rather than the proxy server IP (avoiding the need to block the whole proxy due to the actions of a single user).

Round-robin DNS

With each DNS response, the IP address sequence in the list is permuted.

WinMX

If a file was found, the hash of the file along with IP address and Primary node details of the user with the file was sent to the user who made the search.