Been using Wireguard for awhile and it is amazing. I use pi-hole and it’s great for ad free on the go.
However my public IP and location is shown when looking up my IP. For security purposes is there a way to divert away from my public IP being shown to any prying eyes or middle men?
Sorry if it’s been asked before but I’m not the most tech savvy but I have basic knowledge.
Well as your VPN just bridges from somewhere into your home network, only this connection is secured. Meaning every network call you make will still use your homes public ip address and may potentially be unencrypted if not using ssl.
If you want to hide your public ip address you need to route your wireguard vpn in a way that the outgoing traffic is directed through another vpn. This would hide you homes public ip address.
Your public IP is being hidden. Your real public IP is the one your cellphone or coffee shop or hotel is giving you.
Wireguard is hiding this real IP and making it appear that you’re actually at home.
If you want to make it look like you’re in another place, you’ll need a separate VPN to do this.
No. Every Internet site you visit sees your external IP address, otherwise they could not communicate with you. That’s simply how TCP/IP and UDP works. There is no security reason to hide your external IP address.
You’d have to buy an actual vpn.
Exactly the response I’m looking for thank you.
Ok thank you for the reassurance. I was reading something like having your own DNS server and using a domain name being shown instead of IP. But if I have nothing to worry about then awesome.
DNS is just like a phone book; the name is a shortcut to the number, in this case the IP address. DNS doesn’t hide the address, it just makes it more human friendly.
There are things like proxies and commercial VPNs that can prevent sites from seeing your IP address, by using their own instead. But they are acting as middlemen, which is arguably less secure (since all your traffic goes through them).