Aracari:
In your first post
.. >I'd like to hide the IP Address for privacy reasons.
we understood you didn't want that somebody could know your ip - and your ip will be known even if you use a domain name!
It was only your second post that made clear what you wanted:
I had hoped there was a simple way of using an internal feature within HFS to display a URL that didn't contain my IP Address.
Nevertheless , using a no-ip, dyndns (there are already a lot of posts about this in this forum) or any other domain does not give you more 'privacy' and everybody can get your ip knowing your domain name. The main advantage using a domain name is, that having a dynamic ip, your url will always point to your server, even if your ip changes.
Hi Bacter,
Yeah, my intention was to be able to post URLs that did not contain my real IP Address, for privacy reasons.
I always assumed that a determined person could probably track down my real IP Add behind any method I used, but since I have nothing precious to hide, I was not too concerned about that.
I had no idea if that was natively possible in HFS, hence I asked.
It turns out that it can only be done by setting up a new domain and that is what I have now done. It does what I want after registering at No-IP and setting up my chosen domain as Mars posted.
As for people still being able to identify my real IP - I guess that is right - I am no expert on this. However, I have run the new domain thru a range of WhoIs tools and it only shows the IP Addy of No-IP.
None of them display my real IP Address or who it's registered to.
Can you point me to how another person could identify my real IP Address behind my new HFS domain? ...are you thinking of packet sniffers?
rgds
aracari