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Sociable · 06-01-2004, 13:08

The distinction I was making was that the use of transparent proxies by NTL does not prevent the admins of this board from seeing the true IP's of members posting from their home PC's.

The impression given by earlier posts in the thread was that people seemed to be saying that every member arriving here using the same NTL proxy would show exactly the same IP but this is not the case. LOL

Yes it is true some sites will get confused by the NTL proxies for the reasons given just not this one or many others. It may well explain though why some sites will reject individual connections if it appears the same IP is using multiple logins because of this aspect of proxy use.

AFAIK this is what is meant by a "transparent" proxy ie it is designed not to mask the true IP because at times it is actually essential the true IP gets detected. The problem has been that this appears to not always be the case and the proxies used are not always as "transparent" as they should be.

This is just a guess though and I'm sure one of the Tech experts can provide a more detailed explanation if my guess is incorrect.

06-01-2004, 13:08	#12
Sociable Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Knebworth Age: 73 Posts: 1,816	Re: Dynamic IPs The distinction I was making was that the use of transparent proxies by NTL does not prevent the admins of this board from seeing the true IP's of members posting from their home PC's. The impression given by earlier posts in the thread was that people seemed to be saying that every member arriving here using the same NTL proxy would show exactly the same IP but this is not the case. LOL Yes it is true some sites will get confused by the NTL proxies for the reasons given just not this one or many others. It may well explain though why some sites will reject individual connections if it appears the same IP is using multiple logins because of this aspect of proxy use. AFAIK this is what is meant by a "transparent" proxy ie it is designed not to mask the true IP because at times it is actually essential the true IP gets detected. The problem has been that this appears to not always be the case and the proxies used are not always as "transparent" as they should be. This is just a guess though and I'm sure one of the Tech experts can provide a more detailed explanation if my guess is incorrect.