What is a proxy IP address, pls explain?

Question

Again, I am learing about computer and their language. Thanks for any answers I may get.Please explain in its entirty, and for a 6th grader, so I can understand.

Answer 1

In common terms an ip address is sort of like a phone number and when you call people you can see it on your caller id and say oh its "Jane Doe"

well a proxy address works sort of like a caller id block so they dont know its you, and they think its someone else like "John Smith" because you are using that ip now, and not your own

Answer 2

A substitute IP Address. A proxy device will receive a packet then resend it with a different address making it seem as if the proxy device was the original sender. When the reply packet returns, the proxy device will strip it's proxy address and add the original sender's again. To the sender and receiver, it is transparent.

The reason for doing this is twofold. First, it allows the proxy device to have more control over the packet. For a firewall, this allows the device to look into the application layer of the session and make access decisions based on more than just IP Address and port. Also, this allows you to have many devices behind the proxy device look like one device. This is important for load balancing. You can have many web servers look like they have one address. When a request comes in, the proxy server will front for all the web servers.

Answer 3

Ok, simply put and IP Address is much like a ZIP/Post code with the house number. A proxy could be regarded as a Post Office Box number, if you keep up the analogy with normal mail, you send something from your address(your IP) to the Post Office Box(proxy), which is then forwarded on to the final address, as far as the recipient is concerned the item came from the Post Office Box, therefore your address is kept secret.

Answer 4

Proxy: A gateway that relays one Internet session to another.

IP Address: Each machine connected to the Internet has an address known as an Internet Protocol address (IP address). The IP address takes the form of four numbers separated by dots, for example: 123.45.67.890

Answer 5

In short: an IP address that is used to hide the identity of a visitor's true IP address. Proxies (like Anonymizer) are used to conceal a person's true IP from tracking. BUT, there are ways to gain the IP address unless it's shielded by a "wrapper" (like VPN tunneling). Tunneling prevents any other entity to extract the IP from packet "sniffing" (illegal except for ISP administrators, but that doesn't stop "black hats" [bad hackers]). Packet "sniffing" is a means of extracting the packets (data that flows from and to your computer anytime you're online) from the point of your computer to it's destination, and reading what is sent "in the clear".

Then there's "daisy chaining" proxies to hide traces further, and using rogue servers (another topic that's more technical, but a common theme on the Usenet to avoid harassment and/or to troll the newsgroups).

Source: Me -- A tired server admin of trolls.

Answer 6

Proxy means bypassing things, and a Proxy IP is let me say that if i am using a computer my system will have one IP address which is very important to identify me, but if i use proxy IP then no one can identify me and i can do what ever things i want to, more or less what it does is it bye pass all Firewalls and connect directly

Answer 7

a proxy is a computer that you use to hide behind .. it hides ur ip from the internet by going through the proxy computer anywhere u surf ... its usually a paid service but there are a few free ones but they are generally slow.

Answer 8

It is an address that the server gives to you. It is from a computer within the office of your network provider so that you can browse the net.

Answer 9

if you can get to the internet ....why ask?

Answer 10

dont know