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On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 21:16 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Simon Robert wrote: > > > I want to fake an IP address to make it look like I'm located in North > > America. This is because I have a sony ebook reader and the sony ebook > > shop is for America only, us Brits have to use Waterstones which has a > > lot less titles and a pretty crap site (easy to end up ordering a real > > book by mistake). > > > > Of course this involves windows only software, adobe for waterstones and > > a custom thing for sony. So I have windows 7 running on virtual box for > > this. Is it possible to have the virtual machine spoof an IP address? > > Then I'd be able to buy titles from the Sony shop. > > Spoofing your outgoing IP address is relatively easy. > > However, getting data back to your real IP address, after spoofing the > source IP address is impossible. > > What you need is some sort of proxy server based in the US, or use > something like Tor if you can use an exit node located in the US. > > Gordon > Thanks for the info. I did a of bit googling, but there was so much extraneous stuff I gave up. What is "Tor" (I could google, but think I'd mostly find stuff about a (rather good) sf publisher...) S -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html