posted 18 years ago
Yes, your IP address is always known (unless you use an anonymizing proxy somewhere, in which case the IP is not yours, but that's the extremely rare exception). Depending on where you connect from, that may not be as bad as it sounds, though. The IP address could signify your company (if you do this from work), or it could signify, e.g., AOL (if you dial in from home), or it could actually point to you personally if you have a broadband connection with a static IP address (but your name is still unknown). But generally, there's no way to connect the IP to you as a person.