IP revealed on a website

[downaddict 0]

Hi,

I've been experiencing something weird recently, although I'm not sure whether it hasn't been always the case because I haven't checked this.

Today I hopped on a website and wanted to add a comment. In the form that popped up there was a field with "You're posting from IP:" and after the colon there was my IP! I don't have geolocation turned on in my browser nor is WebRTC on. On various websites that check for IP leak, my computer comes clean (no IP or DNS leak). So how come it's visible on that particular website? The network lock on Eddie is on, and I'm using the latest version.


Thanks!

[Flx 16]

2 hours ago, downaddict said:

So how come it's visible on that particular website?

What is the website in question?

[downaddict 0]

The website is https://www.wnp.pl (a Polish economic news portal)

[giganerd 760]

Being connected to Kitalpha (91.214.x.x), and my real IP being 79.x.x.x, I'm apparently posting from 144.76.x.x, an address belonging to Hetzner Online, a server/web hoster in Germany. That is strange indeed, and I can't give a plausible explanation now.

[downaddict 0]

So essentially, if someone put their mind to it, they could trace back the original IP from the rented one that's visible on that website? That's not what I'm paying for. How many more websites like this are there?

[go558a83nk 270]

It's not showing our real IP.  For giganerd it was something entirely different and it's the same for me.  I have suddenlink as my ISP and am using Dallas AirVPN servers.  The IP address it thinks I'm at is 40.77..x.x which seems to belong to ARIN https://bgp.he.net/AS8075#_prefixes

[Staff 8182]

23 hours ago, downaddict said:

So essentially, if someone put their mind to it, they could trace back the original IP from the rented one that's visible on that website? That's not what I'm paying for. How many more websites like this are there?

Hello!

No, they can't of course. And surely nobody would pay for such a "feature"! There is no remaining trace of your real IP address in your packets once they are not between the VPN server and you, (not like in proxies which add X-Forward etc. field, obviously) and a web site owner can not access our VPN servers (again, that's obvious) as administrator or physically to perform a correlation analysis in real time.

Kind regards