without proxy?

Is there any way to hide my computer name without
using a proxy?

I take it you mean IP address...
Proxy is the easiest way, just use a proxy.

Do you mean IP address or computer name? Well you could spoof your IP address but I doubt many people take that option simply because of the complexity. Jethro is right, just use a proxy, unless you want to spend a lot of time trying to modify your computer.

Ipspoofing is based on trust relationship right?. What i meant was to hide
computer name without a proxy. Thanx

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Originally posted here by totallycurious
Is there any way to hide my computer name without
using a proxy?

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Are you trying to hide your name on a LAN or from the outside Internet? Also, what is your setup?

From the internet. Setup win98se if thats what you mean and using
a dialup. Hope thats sufficient. Does it matter if i'm on LAN
or internet. The methods used must be the same i think. I can be wrong.
Any help maverick.?

I thinks it is enough to just hide your IP from where you are visiting on the Internet, your computer name won't be logged anywhere ( I guess ).
Maverick811 means that are you going to hide your IP from other clients on the LAN or from Internet.

So staying anonymous can be done only with a proxy and the name
wont be logged?.

Yes , but you should check your proxy to ensure that it doesn't suck ( show your real IP ).
for checking the proxies just search the google or AO forums for that.
BTW, do not forget "proxomitron" ( http://207.87.52.60/ )

If you just wanted to avoid proxies, you could use a firewall/router that performed NAT, leaving you with a private internal address (or a seperate public address) and a public external address. If you are more concerned with anonymizing where you are coming from, then there are various proxy servers around that would allow you to bounce traffic off of them.

I haven't personally tried these, but a search on google returned a few publically accessible proxy servers, the first one in the search was the following:
http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/

Suggest trying to find a read as much as you can on NAT and Proxy.

Neb

NAT can be installed on a computer that is connected to a cable modem
i use dial up.

Then you are pretty much going to have to bounce your traffic off of a proxy server...

Usually, this is a great resource:
http://www.cyberarmy.com/lists

jethro, it is a good resource, I'm agree, but as far as I know most of them sucks, I'm tired of testing those.

if by 'on the internet" you mean visiting web sites and getting files, they have to know where to send the web pages and files. servers serve files, they deliver them to you, if they don't have an address, even a proxy address they can't do that.
so a proxy is the only way to hide your address 'on the intternet'

Yes, Tedob1 is right - some address, whether it be the IP address of a proxy or your IP address, is going to be exposed at a minimum just so the servers you are accessing can return information to your machine. There are methods of protection you can employ (use of hw, sw firewalls, proper configuration of your NetBIOS settings, etc) to ensure that you are protected as much as possible. The name of your machine isn't going to be exposed, in most cases, to the outside world - but your IP will have to be.

I'm assuming that one of the reasons you want to hide your IP address without going through a proxy is because you are on dial-up and you speeds may be slowed a little by going through a proxy? If I were you, I would download a good sw firewall (search the Forums here for good advice, there have been many discussions about this previously). Make sure that firewall is properly configured, along with your network settings.

if u know linux u can get shell acounts, provided (sometimes at a cost) by companies, but it depents on why u waht to hide urself, thats the only other alternative.

Preep

Unleashed maybe lists in cyberarmy doesnt work.
Check out http://www.multiproxy.org/anon_list.htm .You can get
a lot of working ones. Just download their software and check all
these proxies if they work or not. Its pretty simple and works fast.
And thanx to all the guys who helped me on this.

totallycurious, I already know all those links which offers a big list of free proxy servers, yes most of them work , but they sucks, or in other word they do not hide your IP form the servers :)

Unleashed they do. I know there are proxy whih laims to be anonymous but will forward your real ip.
But there are real anonymous ones to which can be found using the method as i said above.
To check if they are really anonymous you can check your ip in sites such as
www.ip-address.com. chain them for increasing your anonymity..

How is it possible(if so) to run through 2+ proxy servers? I can do 1 fine....