Playing With Your IP

In my last post, i wrote about IP address, uses of IP addresses, types of IP address and how to trace IP address, in this post i am going to tell some tricks about how can you modify IP address according to your needs and how you can use IP address for your benefit.

In our daily life we come across such a situation many times when we try to access a website on the computer but we find that it has been blocked by system administrator. There are simply numerous ways of accessing those blocked websites. Some of which you will find in this post.

IP Address can be changed easily by using one of the following techniques. Sometimes these techniques are very useful if you want to access any blocked website. Generally websites are blocked in such a way that the access of that server is blocked from a particular IP but if we somehow manage to change our IP, we'll be able to access the blocked site without any problem.

1. Proxy Servers: A proxy server is a server that acts as a gateway between the client and the server. All the requests made by the client are directed to the required server through a proxy server, so that those requests appear to be coming from the proxy server instead of the client and hence the site is accessible. I am giving below a list of some of the famous proxy sites that i use myself but there are more than thousands of proxy sites which you can find using various search engines.
The method of using these proxies is very easy as all you have to do is, just to go these sites given below and enter the URL of the website that you want to access. The proxy site will then open the required website for you.

• http://freesslproxy.com/
• http://www.samair.ru/proxy/
• http://www.topbits.com/proxy.html (this site has a long list of proxies which is updated regularly)

2. IP Address Spoofing (without proxy servers): IP address Spoofing (commonly called as IP Spoofing) is a method of creation of IP packets with a forged (or fake) source IP Address. The purpose of IP spoofing is to hide the identity of the sender or impersonate other computer systems. This technique is very useful if the attacker wants to gain the trust of the target by pretending to be someone else.

IP spoofing is done mainly by two methods:
• Manually: You can change your IP address manually but you will just have to try your luck until you find a correct IP address which works well with your connection or you have the correct IP address you want to impersonate as.
• By using Softwares: This is very simple as there are many softwares that can change your IP address and assign your machine a new IP Address. For eg. softwares like “auto IP hide” and “HideMyIP” can be used for the above purpose.