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Firewall Testing Went Wrong
I'm not usually the one asking questions about computers but I had a little trouble. My sister and I 'Share' the same internet line. She lives accross town and we have dial-up. Well I was trying to test my personal firewall today and when I did I got this message on the hackwatch.org site:
"Unable to Probe
The IP address requesting this page is different from the IP address of your computer. This indicates that your computer is behind a proxy or NAT. These devices allow you to access the Internet by relaying traffic, typically from multiple computers, through a single IP address.
We are unable to directly probe your computer, you should take comfort from this. You have that much more protection between your computer and the Internet."
So could someone translate what this means?
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A proxy server is a server that your computer uses to access the internet so that hackers and other strange things cant find your ip address and do bad things to your computer. A NAT device is usualy a router of some sort that splits up the signal from one connection and divides it up to more than one computer. From what it sounds like, you are most likley not behind a NAT and if you don't know what a proxy is then you are not using one. Sounds like something with your isp, they may force your connection through a proxy. If you only tried one time I say try again, it could be that you have a dynamic IP and you it changed on you right at that moment, but that would be lucky.
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