Does Mullvad hide your IP address?

How can I find my VPN IP address?

I have a VPN connection with my ISP and I'd like to find its IP address.

I'm asking because I'm trying to run some software that needs to connect to the Internet via a VPN. This is in case I get cut off by my provider.

The IP of your internet connection can be found in your router's settings. Usually the network settings are inside "Advanced" or "Wi-Fi" menu.

For example this picture from the OpenWRT router I'm using: You can use any web-browser to surf and find the DNS-servers you are using.

Does Mullvad have dedicated IP?

I'm confused about their IP services.

If you sign up for "dedicated IP service", does that give your own IP address? I assume if it did, they'd be doing this for a fee, rather than providing the service free of charge.

For the record, I haven't signed up for a dedicated IP address. They do have a free service for those who wish to use them (which requires a paid account, by the way).

What you're referring to is basically a second IP address which is not assigned to a customer or any one individual. Rather, it is assigned to the whole company, and used as part of the corporate infrastructure. A company would have a single IP address assigned to it, which can't be used for any individual connection (as it would be shared with all users).

The IP is a block of addresses, and so is always shared by any user of the company. The user doesn't have to make a call to the dedicated IP to use it.

That's actually the main difference between dedicated IP and shared IP. A shared IP is an IP address assigned to a user on the network, but can't be used to make external calls (otherwise you'd break other people's connections). A dedicated IP is an IP address that is used to make external calls. When you use a shared IP you still need to make a separate call to an external (and different) IP to connect with the other party.

However, some organisations are now offering so-called "Private IP Addresses" which aren't really private at all - they're just another shared IP address. Basically, it's just a different allocation that no longer shares an address with everyone else. Some businesses still prefer to keep their IP address from a shared allocation, even though this means using a Shared IP address.

Yes, I think there are better ways to approach this question. However I wanted to provide a quick answer.

On average, every person connects to the internet from their home IP address. That IP is assigned to that home, and it doesn't change when the user changes locations. In most cases the IP address isn't even visible, only the DNS domain name.

So if someone has a normal connection from their home, to their cable/broadband router, and they want to connect to another device, they're already using that same IP address.

Does Mullvad hide your IP address?

What does it mean for the NSA?

At the bottom of an email I got from the Internet company Mullvad yesterday is the following, "IPaddress" or internet protocol address. You can find it on my hard drive.

To our friends and customers in the US: The NSA may have a different method than Mullvad for collecting your IP address. We are doing everything we can to not be responsible for this information being intercepted by any organisation.

So, for some reason you should be worried that there's possibly a way your IP address could be intercepted. I don't think this should worry anyone. When the NSA intercepts all your IP traffic they will always know exactly which part of their system the traffic leaves. This means they always know which country you live in. You are more likely to be spied on by someone listening to the frequency bands in your local area than by something that is being fed on some remote system by a company who doesn't even deal with it.

I don't think they have any reason to give away your IP addresses in such a public manner unless it served a practical purpose like when a person behind bars asks for phone access they would know who they were talking to. It should be said that Mullvad don't do a whole lot other than connecting to certain ports (eg 22) on the public internet on request. They don't care who gets hold of your IP address as they sell the ability to tunnel through various networks and servers without you having to know anything. They only care about people connecting to those ports in the first place.

This has zero to do with Mullvad. Their customer agreement has nothing to do with what type of security the NSA use to pick up/record their IP address. It's probably simply a legal requirement when selling stuff over a network. If they don't explicitly say so, people wouldn't ask themselves how that works.