Anonymizing IPs for Business
-
Do you know for certain that the vendors in question will have an issue? I don't know of many vendors that tie user accounts to IP addresses for the purpose of cross referencing.
-
OpenVPN type service through VULTR small linux instances comes to mind
-
@kelly said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
Do you know for certain that the vendors in question will have an issue? I don't know of many vendors that tie user accounts to IP addresses for the purpose of cross referencing.
I am being told that they use IP addresses and other metrics.
-
@wrx7m said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
@kelly said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
Do you know for certain that the vendors in question will have an issue? I don't know of many vendors that tie user accounts to IP addresses for the purpose of cross referencing.
I am being told that they use IP addresses and other metrics.
So when your employee and another employee both go work from the same Starbucks it will screw that totally up.
Totally unrelated to your companies multiple legal divisions.
Also home IP addresses can change frequently, depending on the ISP. So one day Bob at your place has an IP and the next day Jill at XYZ has it.
-
@jaredbusch said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
@wrx7m said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
@kelly said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
Do you know for certain that the vendors in question will have an issue? I don't know of many vendors that tie user accounts to IP addresses for the purpose of cross referencing.
I am being told that they use IP addresses and other metrics.
So when your employee and another employee both go work from the same Starbucks it will screw that totally up.
Totally unrelated to your companies multiple legal divisions.
Also home IP addresses can change frequently, depending on the ISP. So one day Bob at your place has an IP and the next day Jill at XYZ has it.
Depending on where you are at in the decision chain for your organization I would consider pushing back on this. It is an difficult task that is not without significant cost, and will frequently fail (people being what they are). If your vendor is requiring this, then they need to have controls on their end for handling it.
-
@wrx7m said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
The brief background is that certain vendors will think that we are a single company when the traffic comes from a single IP address and will have issues with that. Since it isn't a single company, we need to have different IPs for different accounts at the same vendor.
Bottom line, this isn't your problem, this is a vendor problem. Their stuff is broken, period. This isn't how networking works, period. This is a bug, call support, get your money back, find something that works.
-
This isn't a "requirement" from the partner. It's one of the metrics that they use to prevent the same company from having multiple accounts.
-
@wrx7m said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
This isn't a "requirement" from the partner. It's one of the metrics that they use to prevent the same company from having multiple accounts.
So either...
- They ignore this and it doesn't matter. Or...
- Their software is broken because they are getting false information.
-
How do networks in shared office spaces work? Could you claim the companies all operate in a shared environment and tell the vendor to get over it? Tax ID and account setup should be the metric per company, not IP address.
-
@smitherick said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
How do networks in shared office spaces work? Could you claim the companies all operate in a shared environment and tell the vendor to get over it? Tax ID and account setup should be the metric per company, not IP address.
Yes, all these companies that run form shared office spaces like the one @Bundy-Associates are members of. There are a dozen companies in there or more. They all use hosted services and it all goes out the same pipe.
-
@jaredbusch said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
@smitherick said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
How do networks in shared office spaces work? Could you claim the companies all operate in a shared environment and tell the vendor to get over it? Tax ID and account setup should be the metric per company, not IP address.
Yes, all these companies that run form shared office spaces like the one @Bundy-Associates are members of. There are a dozen companies in there or more. They all use hosted services and it all goes out the same pipe.
And lots of companies use dynamic rather than static IPs these days. Only need static if hosting services internally, which is less and less common. We don't have any static IPs here.
-
When is this vendor from the late 70's? Have the never heard of the internet before? Do they not know how/where modern people work and are requiring ridiculous things because they are incompetent?
The application is broken push back and say if they can't fix it we need to find a vendor.
-
Update -
I explained the points made here to the person who requested I investigate this. They have backed off for now. Hopefully, it is the end of this request.
-
@Odeszsa said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
Oh hi everyone! Web scraping nowadays is a regular thing and if you're in need of a large IP pool there is a great residential proxy provider on the market - Smartproxy. With BUYTODAY coupon you can get 20% off of any subscription of your choice, click on this link for more info.
-
@Odeszsa said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
Oh hi everyone! I'm a new spammer who just joined and got banned. So great to be here. Sorry I can't post anymore because I'm just a spam bot who got caught.
Ah, that's so sad. "Sorry" to see you go.
-
Buy a cheap large block of ipv6 and dish those out to each computer for public connections?
But I'm going to guess these vendors have never heard of ipv6 so that won't work possibly.
-
Oh, old thread brought back by spam. My bad.
-
@Obsolesce said in Anonymizing IPs for Business:
Oh, old thread brought back by spam. My bad.
Hey, whatever it takes!
-
I'm not sure whether it would be financially beneficial for your company to use such services like proxymesh, smartproxy or luminati. Residential IPs provided by these services are more suitable for scraping and management of social media accounts or market analysis.
In your case it's better to hire few IT guys and set up few exit proxy IPs through which every user would connect through.
-
Since this thread was revived... I have had help via other threads. This is what we came up with.
- External Squid Proxy servers running on Fedora, hosted on Vultr.
- Each sever is configured to only allow a handful of whitelisted domains to be browsed. https://mangolassi.it/topic/18907/updated-connecting-to-1-site-with-separate-logins-several-ips/68
- Vultr firewall only allows access from our corporate IP range.
- Configured custom Chrome incognito shortcuts for each brand's proxy server information in the arguments.
- Deployed shortcuts to respective users' desktops via GPO/GPP. https://mangolassi.it/topic/19381/creating-a-shortcut-for-chrome-incognito-with-proxy-settings/35
