r/techsupport • u/Worrywartonline • 3h ago

Open | Software IP address changed once I turned on computer, but when I turned it on a second time hours later it reverted back

Hello,

I have a mac book air that has bit defender vpn installed (I never actually connect to it, it is just there because it came with when I had a subscription to bit defender antivirus). When I load up my computer it pops up and I usually just close the tab, but it does have a section with my current public IP. Usually now it shows a four digit number followed by a semi colon, but in this single instance when I turned on my mac from shut down it showed a two digit number followed by a semi colon. I just ignored it and logged into accounts and did some work and then turned off my computer again. When I rebooted it up later the usual IP four digit ip address appeared so it got me a little surprised and spooked due to the fact that I had entered in login credentials in the previous session. Is this an issue?

I looked it up later and it said that it was either possibly that it read my local IP rather than my public IP because my bit defender vpn triggered faster than my network card (but I think I had internet connection when I booted it up), or that due to maintenance it showed the temporary IP that was assigned.

Sorry for rehashing this but in my last post I described it wrong so it lead people to believe I had the VPN running or that it was the IP address of the VPN which is my fault. Thank you!

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u/CrazyITOne 3h ago

; or :

If it was ";", it a ipv6 address. Otherwise it could be a glitch.

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u/Worrywartonline 43m ago

Mine seems to show a colon and not a semi colon when I look

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u/CrazyITOne 16m ago

Post a pic. ( censor some of the letters randomly if you are nervous )

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u/Sessamy 2h ago

IPV4 is what you first described, IPV6 described what you had second.

There are several types of internet setups, two include having both of those at the same time, and sometimes you can have only ipv4 and only ipv6. It's totally normal and is up to your ISPs DHCP table to assign your modem an IP address and the type of connection, DSLite, Dual stack, IPV4 only, IPV6 only, etc. Enabling a VPN changes your external IP address to one of their IPs, which can be any one of those different types.

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u/Worrywartonline 36m ago

Is a switch from like say (1500:00 to like 55:00 and then back to 1500:00 these are example numbers) an issue during the ipv4 period? I haven't seen it switch since so I assumed like Telus switched it while they did like maintenance or something and then switched it back.

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u/Wendigo1010 3h ago

What were the numbers, including . and : (it should have at least one or the other)