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Comparing IP Masquerading with Proxy and NAT

By salman | Published: July 8, 2011

NAT (Network Address Translation) is a collection of public IP addresses. Whenever a machine in a network wants to connect to external network then it would use one public IP address from the pool available in the NAT box. Moving forward, all the traffic will seem to originate from the respective public IP address thus [...]

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Video: Unblocking Restricted Websites Explained

By HideIP Admin | Published: April 17, 2010

Are you interested in watching Hulu outside the US? Or maybe BBC in the US? Here is a video from Tekzilla that nicely explains how you can achieve this by using proxy server. As Roger Chang emphasizes in the video, VPN services are another good solution to unblock restricted websites. Take Hotspot Shield for example. It provides US [...]

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Interview: Listen To Eric Jung, The Man Behind FoxyProxy

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 31, 2009

FoxyProxy is a well-know Firefox add-on that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities and automatically switches an Internet connection across one or more proxy servers. Guys from FLOSS Weekly, Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte, have interviewed Eric Jung, the creator of FoxyProxy. You can listen Eric beautifully explaining what a proxy is, talking about censorship, [...]

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Proxy Servers: Good or/and Evil?

By HideIP Admin | Published: June 19, 2009

Proxy servers are hot news these days due to the election process in Iran and also due to the legal case where Microsoft is suing against three people that were defrauding Internet advertisers by using automated programs mimic users clickstreams. David Storn, an expert on Internet and networking technologies who was the former editor-in-chief at Network [...]

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Big Proxy Network To Hide Your IP

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 26, 2008

Proxy servers allow you to surf and browse the Internet without directly connecting to the destination sites.  The sites you are connecting to will not see any requests or log entries from your IP address, but from the proxy server instead. Thus, you are able to surf in secrecy and change your IP address. One [...]

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Risks of Using a Proxy Site/Server

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 24, 2008

Although proxy servers are perfectly legal, there are other dangers that you leave yourself vulnerable to when using a proxy.  If you don’t know what a proxy server is, it is a vast connection of servers that allow you to access any website without giving away your IP Address.  An IP Address is similar to [...]

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Is My IP Address Blacklisted?

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 22, 2008

If you are wondering if your IP has been blacklisted by over 100 DNS spam filters, then you should check out the site WhatIsMyIPAddress.com. You will be able to check your IP to see if it has been put on a blacklist, you can now see why your emails have been going to spam filters. [...]

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