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  • What is my ip address?

    From SpreadTooThin@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 8 09:07:48 2016
    I ssh into a server over a vpn.
    From which IP address does this server think I logged in from?
    This is what I need to know.
    It's an older Solaris server.

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  • From SpreadTooThin@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 8 10:13:31 2016
    On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 10:14:05 AM UTC-7, hymie! wrote:
    In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,
    SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62@gmail.com>, who said:
    I ssh into a server over a vpn.
    From which IP address does this server think I logged in from?
    This is what I need to know.
    It's an older Solaris server.

    The "w" and/or "who" command should tell you that.

    --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie hymie@lactose.homelinux.net

    and that was the last we heard from you know who!

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  • From hymie!@21:1/5 to who on Mon Feb 8 17:14:02 2016
    In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,
    SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62@gmail.com>, who said:
    I ssh into a server over a vpn.
    From which IP address does this server think I logged in from?
    This is what I need to know.
    It's an older Solaris server.

    The "w" and/or "who" command should tell you that.

    --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie hymie@lactose.homelinux.net

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  • From Kaz Kylheku@21:1/5 to SpreadTooThin on Mon Feb 15 05:25:37 2016
    On 2016-02-08, SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62@gmail.com> wrote:
    I ssh into a server over a vpn.
    From which IP address does this server think I logged in from?

    You didn't say whether the server is in the private network
    reached by the VPN, or somewhere beyond that (such as on the
    open internet).

    If you connect to a VPN and then through that VPN connect to
    some external host unrelated to the private network, your
    IP address is likely going to be some NAT-ted.

    Basically the VPN joins you to a private network through a tunnel. You
    are assigned an IP in that network, which appears on a VPN-based
    virtual network interface on your local host.

    If you make connections over that interface, the source IP of your
    packets is that address, but of course it can be translated.

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