Virtual Provider Networks (VPNs) are used for various purposes. These usually include the protection of privacy on the Internet, improving it better safety of connecting to the Internet, bypassing censorship and any kind of restriction, or for purely professional 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 points directly to you. So a court order on the virtual network provider is enough to reveal very private information, such as the country and region that 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 that you disable any script blockers you use to run your tests, as they may block them scripts που controln 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 anonymous Tor network, we had absolute results as you will see in the picture below.
The second leak search service dnsleaktest.com does not have as much specialized tools as the first, or if it does not appear in the results. That is, it does not seem to check if WebRTC leaks, if the proxy is secure,
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:
