How your individual device can be identified on the Internet

This page was a "work in progress March 2012. It does show the potential of a vulnerability when IPv6 is fully implemented.

• Systems and programming on The Technology Muse
• Performing a reverse IP look-up

Your individual computing device can be identified even if you are connecting from behind a firewall or NAT device such as a router. 

    The advent and/or implementation of a ICMPv6 Router. 

Here are a few observations that I have made looking for information about my own identity as it appears to the outside world.

Making a search for IP look-up services I came across a service called IP-Lookup.com

The IP-Lookup site reports my correct IPv4 address and claims to also know a little about my IPv6 identity. However, this doesn't seem  to agree with the information, seen below from running ipconfig:

• RFC 4443 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification  

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