Determining who someone is via IP-Address??

[Electric Amish]

Is there a utility or website that will allow me to do this??

tia

amish

 

[SoylentGreen]

Where, on the forums or what program. IM or something?

 

[Viper GTS]

Not really.

You can find out who owns the IP (erin.net), but you can't figure out who the individual is who had it at a given time without the ISP's help (they keep logs).

And you won't be getting that without a court order.

Viper GTS

 

[nord1899]

If its a webpage that you are asking about, use the Whois tool.

If its a dialup/broadband connection, then what Viper GTS said.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
Where, on the forums or what program. IM or something?

Just curious where the visitors to a website I admin are coming from. All I get are a list of IPs.

amish

 

[agnitrate]

You can find where they live if it's not a business.

IP Resolution

-silver

 

[rh71]

The easiest thing to do is ping -a <IP address> and see what it resolves to ... for instance... an IP resolves to something like ***.uchicago.edu ... I was able to tell my friend who works at UChicago visited my website that same minute (I get a notification email with IP upon entrance).

 

[nord1899]

You can traceroute them and see what ISP they might be coming from. The name of the routers might give you an idea on what geographic location they are in.

To traceroute, open a command prompt. Enter in tracert and the IP you want to find.

See where it goes. And the last few hops before it might tell you what ISP and what location.

Without a court order, thats about all you can do.

 

[numark]

You can find out who owns the IP address at ARIN Whois but that's as far as you're getting.

 

[bunker]

Enter a the ip's into this 🙂

 

[Beau]

We frown upon this type of behavior here

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