internal ip address

[Denis Beauchemin]

alexbo at myself.com a écrit :
> Hi there,
> my Linux server has MailScanner v4.65.3 with postfix v2.1.5
> When, for example, I send a message from a pc whose internal ip address is 10.0.0.175 taking a look in the headers of outgoing mail I've seen the last header just before Message-ID to appear like that
>
> Received: from [10.0.0.175] (pc1 [10.0.0.175])
> by smtp.vvv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EBF7A75C7
>     for <aaa at mail.com>; Tue,  5 Feb 2008 14:16:09 +0100 (CET)
>
> Why the ip address of the sender is shown (twice) in square brackets ?
>
> My task is avoiding the outer world to know the internal ip of the sender... 

Alex,

The IP addresses you use are non-routable.  That means nobody can access 
your computers from the internet because no router will allow them.  So 
don't worry about the whole world knowing about your internal IP addresses.

Denis

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