If you are on a VPN, can people track you back to your own I.P. without a VPN?

Question

If you are on a VPN, can people track you back to your own I.P. without a VPN?

Answer 1

If you mean once you exit the VPN tunnel then yes they can track you if they install tracking cookies etc.

Once you turn off the VPN the cookies or any spyware, tracking software of any kind will report back your real IP.

You need more specialized security than a simple VPN to totally keep you safe.

I won't get into it unless you're really interested

Answer 2

It depends who you are worried about tracking you. A normal Internet user can track you only if you establish a peer to peer connection. Depending upon what the connection is for, then a proxy server may not allow a peer to peer connection to work properly.



If you connect to a proxy server through a VPN, you are still not hidden as far as law enforcement services are concerned. With the right court orders in place, they can trace back from a target website through the proxy server and from there to your own ISP and from there to your home. Connections logs held by ISPs and proxy sites can be open to scrutiny by the appropriate authorities.



A proxy server is functionally similar to a NAT router allowing multiple client machines to share the public IP address of the proxy.



There is no point about asking the question about the main use of a VPN when a VPN is used on its own (without a proxy server). Such VPN connections are used by large companies to allow their workers to work from home or other locations that are not secure. The company will trace the connection through the login validation of the users concerned.



Many people confuse VPNs with proxy servers. The two are not the same.

Answer 3

Web sites you connect to via VPN can only see the VPN host IP address, the rest is software back to your PC (encrypted traffic). However, there are tools within some browsers and scripts like Java scripts that can query your PC directly, to find out more about you and your machine, including your IP addresses.

Thus, with a well designed web site, and a user with mediocre web security, that web site can still find out your IP. There are ways in certain browsers to turn off things like WebRTC:

https://github.com/diafygi/webrtc-ips

Read up on Internet security. And, never use open proxies or "free" VPN....

Answer 4

VPN as the name itself explains, it is a virtual private network. In simplest way, it can be explained as, a person sets a network of different servers, like for instance, i am Mr. X and i have a server in Japan, now i bought another server in Australia, and one another server in the USA. Now, all three of them are virtually connected. By using latest technology, to secure the network, Mr. X used a sets of protocol to create a bridge between all three servers (PPTP, L2TP, SSTP, IKEv2, OpenVPN). Now, once the bridge is constructed, for sake of further security, Mr. X use encryption to encode every aspects of their communication. For Example, i have to sent a letter to my GF and i wrote it and put it in the mail box. If anyone took it out, they can easily read it as it is not covered in an envelop. so, Encryption is just like envelop that secure everything you type and only the dedicated device will have the key to open that envelop. Mr X is completed the process of VPN and invite Mr Y to connect to his network. Mr Y accept the invitation and received a specific user ID or password to connect with the Mr X network. Once manually setup the connection, Mr Y will have choice to connect to any of Mr X's 3 servers (Japan, Australia and USA). Let say Mr Y connects with USA. Now, what will happen, Mr Y IP will be changed with one of the USA IPs as he is connected with USA. His trafic is not routed directly, but through the VPN connection, so, while sitting in Japan, he can access Netflix or any USA channel he wants.