It is like a detailed postal code (zip) and the DNS servers around the internet keep a directory of the mappings of website names and their corresponding IP addresses. The DNS service, which stands for Domain Naming Service is responsible to working out the IP address from a website name, allowing routers across the internet to direct your traffic to the right web servers where the websites live. The ISP won’t be able to see my internet browsing habits when I connect using a VPN because I am not using their DNS service anymore instead, I’m using the one supplied by my VPN provider. These logs will just have the name of the devices connecting to the router and the private IP addresses assigned to them by the router along with the public IP address assigned by the ISP. I’m not overly concerned by the ISP doing this, because there is nothing for them to garner that is of any value. As the router is most probably supplied by the ISP, they have direct access to it and could log on remotely and see the connection logs if they wanted to. The ISP can see the device details as this is logged in the router when devices connect for internet connections including wi-fi connections. A VPN also hides the real IP address by assigning a fake one so websites visited will see the fake IP address and not the real one. I decided to look into the ways a VPN can hide identities to make sure internet activity remained anonymous.ĭoes a VPN hide my device? A VPN can’t hide a device from the Internet Service Provider (ISP) but it can hide the web browser traffic from the ISP by encrypting the traffic and using the VPNs DNS service instead of the ISP DNS.
Hiding your device from the internet using a VPN sounds pretty straightforward but I wanted to make sure this was possible.
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