anyway to find out who someone is from ip address?

[OS]

i have a personal page or whatever with a site counter on it. I have a repeating visitor who has been visiting every couple days for several months and i have no clue who it is. The site counter only logs ISP, browser, OS, time and IP.

 

[dopcombo]

you?

 

[OS]

lol, i know it's my own shadow when i see it.

besides, i don't use firefox/sbc.

 

[amdskip]

Nothing lower than just who the isp they use is, that is if it is a real person.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Nothing lower than just who the isp they use is, that is if it is a real person.

I never thought it might be a search engine/bot, but if it matters, using those ip tools online, it seems to be a residential DSL?

it says;

....dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net

 

[T9D]

Get sitemeter. It logs the city the person is in too. Might help narro it down anyway. Is it a Journal you have? Some Journals sites have scripts you can add to tell you the user name.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

You can onyl ge ttheir physical location and ISP, not name. Many IPs are dynamic so they change anyways, meaning the only person who knows is their ISP. Plus, I'm sure privacy laws mean you can't find out who it is unless you have some court order that requires the ISP to turn over such information.

Even with physical location, it is not exact too. Usually a city nearby or something. Try it on your own IP. Get a program called NeoTrace and try.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: tk109
Get sitemeter. It logs the city the person is in too. Might help narro it down anyway. Is it a Journal you have? Some Journals sites have scripts you can add to tell you the user name.

that's what i use, it says san diego, but supposedly the geographic locator is not totally accurate.

 

[QED]

If websites could figure out who you are based on your IP address alone, then there'd be no need to register to read the NYTimes online or any other website-- they would just know who you are.

Unfortunately, for the most part the only thing you can gather is the ISP, and perhaps their geographic region.

Why not just add a small guestbook to your page and see if your suprise visitor leaves a comment for you?

 

[OS]

thx all, i figured no was probably the answer, but was hoping someone would tell me what i wanted to hear. Like mentioned already, if it were easy, riaa probably wouldn't have sued verizon to release their records and stuff.

it's a friendster/myspace sort of page, it already has a guestbook, and i can't correlate the visitor to anyone who has already signed my book.