hiding my server's IP address

linuxhippy · 07-04-2006, 11:23 AM

I run a server with Slack 10.2 and don't like how anybody in the world can see my server's IP address...it changes weekly (it's DHCP using no-ip.com) but I don't want people to know which ISP I'm with. I've heard that anonymizers do this....are there any for Linux?

Yalla-One · 07-04-2006, 11:30 AM

Hi,

If you have a firewall on your PC or network, it's normally not a problem to show your IP...
If you're doing some real stealth work, you might want to consider EFF's TOR project : http://tor.eff.org/

-Y1

PsychoticDude85 · 07-04-2006, 12:35 PM

What I guess you want to do then is set up your domain on a small paid host in some datacenter, and make that a proxy that gets information from your server and sends it on to the user that requested it. An index page and some mod_rewrite may be enough, but if not PHP will certainly do it

linuxhippy · 07-04-2006, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PsychoticDude85

What I guess you want to do then is set up your domain on a small paid host in some datacenter, and make that a proxy that gets information from your server and sends it on to the user that requested it. An index page and some mod_rewrite may be enough, but if not PHP will certainly do it

You mean put my server pc in another location...a small datacenter? What companies offer that kind of service?

PsychoticDude85 · 07-04-2006, 03:11 PM

No... not at all, you get some shared/dedicated hosting on their servers and set up a small service there to get information from your server which is unaffiliated with the server at the data center. Personally I don't see the problem of letting them see your IP as long as you have up to date services and iptables set up, but if you want it invisible that is the way you would do it. To clarify.

1) User asks for http://yoursite.com/directory/page.html
2) Mod_rewrite interprets the URL as http://yoursite.com/index.php?target...tory/page.html
3) http://yoursite.com/ sends for http://realsite.com/directory/page.html (if you are using PHP with something like file_get_contents).

That way you are never told where the content really comes from, as it is hardcoded into the PHP which is not viewable.

linuxhippy · 07-05-2006, 12:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PsychoticDude85

No... not at all, you get some shared/dedicated hosting on their servers and set up a small service there to get information from your server which is unaffiliated with the server at the data center. Personally I don't see the problem of letting them see your IP as long as you have up to date services and iptables set up, but if you want it invisible that is the way you would do it. To clarify.

1) User asks for http://yoursite.com/directory/page.html
2) Mod_rewrite interprets the URL as http://yoursite.com/index.php?target...tory/page.html
3) http://yoursite.com/ sends for http://realsite.com/directory.page.html (if you are using PHP with something like file_get_contents).

That way you are never told where the content really comes from, as it is hardcoded into the PHP which is not viewable.

Do you have a link of who does this or there a program I would use?

PsychoticDude85 · 07-05-2006, 01:58 PM

Learn some .htaccess (http://modrewrite.com/) and PHP (http://php.net/), something like that is simple.

I really have to say I don't understand why you need to hide your IP though. It makes no sense to me.

linuxhippy · 07-05-2006, 05:37 PM

I've been told that I'm paranoid about this...you can never be too safe! Thanks for the links!

Yalla-One · 07-06-2006, 12:46 AM

Note that quite a few such hosting providers charge for bandwidth, so keep this in mind if you keep downloading large files or have a small quota on the provider you're choosing. If not you might run into some extreme excessive bandwidth charges!

-Y1