Virtual Provider Networks (VPNs) are used for a variety of purposes. These usually include protecting the privacy of the Internet by improving the security of the Internet connection, bypassing censorship and any restrictions, or for purely business purposes.
If you use a VPN regardless of the purpose you need, you may want to be sure that your actual IP address can leak.
The reason for this is simple: The IP address leads directly to you. So a court decision on the virtual network provider is enough to reveal very private information such as the country and region you are connecting to.
Let's see if your VPN is leaking your IP address
The way I'll see below is unreservedly recommended for each time you connect to a virtual network, so to make sure that your connection does not leak information about your actual IP address. And if you do not do it all the time, try the test at least the first time you connect and then you can repeat it occasionally.
There are many websites you can use for this purpose, and the good news is that all you need is to open the website to find out if your VPN is leaking information you do not need.
We will report three different websites to control leakage of IP.
Note: It is recommended to disable any script blocker you use to do your tests, because they can block the scripts that check the DNS.
Let's look at the 3 pages:
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If you see different IP addresses or regions, they report the IPv4 IP address, and the IPv6 IP address. Then there is a chance that third-party websites or other services can see both IP addresses.
In the tests we used Opera's "VPN" (better to be called a proxy) and Tor anonymous network on a Linux system.
We noticed that the anonymity in the Opera browser was not so absolute since the ipleak.net website, although it immediately displayed a different IPv4 IP than that of my actual connection, continued to search (it looks like a black marker under “No forwarded IP detected…. ”
On the same page using the Tor anonymous network we had perfect results as you will see below picture.
The second service searchdnsleaktest.com doesn't have as specialized tools as the first one, or if it does they don't appear in the results. That is, it doesn't seem to check if there are leaks via WebRTC, if the proxy is secure, etc.
Although this service has a button that says "Extended Test" it does not display the results of the first one.
As for the third page, although it looks like it does not show any results, or at least it did not show up in the system that we tested:
