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Hiding IP4 address when using IP6

Posted on August 5, 2014

I’m trying to set up a forward proxy using squid, apache, whatever, on IP6. When I hit services that tell me my IP, they are still able to detect the IP4 address for my server. How do they do that and how do I prevent it?



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