Tracing IP address help!

Okay, to answere Mica’s question (which is actually kinda hard to understand 😮 ), did he say how he got your IP address, and if he has it, I can almost guarantee that he won’t be able to do anything with it. If you want to know his IP address so you can report what he’s doing to his ISP/the proper authorities, then this little bit of info might help you out. You see, when you send an email through yahoo, hotmail, or through anywhere else, it shows the IP address of the computer (or network if the computer is behind a proxy router) used to send the email. To check the IP addresses of an email message, go into your Outlook Express and right click on one of the messages, and click on properties. Then go to the “Details tab” and look for something like this:
X-Originating-IP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
X-Originating-Email: [xxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com]
X-Sender: xxxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com

The X-Originating-IP is the IP address of the sender, and if that is in the email, then you can do a reverse DNS (which can be done here http://www.DNSstuff.com {middle column second one down}) lookup of the IP address and then report the person to his/her ISP. I can almost guarantee that his ISP will at least send a warning to him that he is violating the user agreement. I know the ISP I work at does that ;). Anyways, other than that, there isn’t much you can do. I wouldn’t worry too much about him having your IP address, unless you’ve sent him an email, but you might also want to go ahead and run any anti-virus/anti-spyware programs you have. Hope this helps! ^_^

And for maiga, no, they cannot get your IP address from chatting in a regular web based chatroom. All messages that are posted in a chat room go through the yahoo servers, making it extremely really extra hard (yeah yeah, that didn’t make much sense) to get your IP address. I’m sure there is some way to do it, but not many (if any) people know how to do it, and if your daughter spends her time in the teen rooms and such, then I’m pretty sure she (and your security) are pretty safe. Hope this helps ya both out! ^_^

Exactly. Basically, the servers act as a proxy server. Because of the way that chat rooms work, all messages are sent to the yahoo server and then forwarded to everyone in the room. It would cause a lot of problems to have all the messages sent in a chatroom go p2p to every user in the room directly from each other. Not only that, but you’ld also get the “IRC wars” that happen on IRC (where users boot each other by flooding a persons IP address with pings and DoS attacks) in order to take over a room. Granted you still have that in a way, with the booters, but there are 3rd party chat clients that help to deal with that problem. I hope this helps, if you have any more questions, feel free to ask! ^_^

This sounds way too suspicious to me. I would think you would be grateful that someone is montoring the conversations and not care if someone is charged with a crime or not.

Ok, so someone has your IP addie…and they keep changing names and harrassing you…what do you do?? Well for one, I would get their IP addie myself (there are numerous ways to do this, see all the other forum replies…) then download a decent firewall. One of my favorites is Protowall, and another one is Kerio. With these firewalls, you can block their IP addies period. Simple as that. Then they definitely can’t “hack” into computer for one thing…and I think it even blocks yahoo chat too. You guys are correct in that you can’t get an IP addie with just chatting with someone…however, I don’t think the Yahoo server completely acts as a proxy or anything…so it may very well forward the IP’s of people chatting. Also, if that guy has an IP that changes every 24 hours, or every logoff (which is often the case) you may have to block a range of IP addresses. If someone gets your IP address, you can usually just change your IP address by changing the slot that your NIC resides in, putting it in another PCI slot…and then they no longer have your IP. I’m not really sure if someone mentioned it or not, but you could also run through a proxy, and that would hide your IP address admirably, if you wanted to go through with all the bother. Well, I think I’ve said all I’m gonna say for now…later everyone!!

*First time poster*

I have to say all this information has been extremely inciteful. I putz around with PC’s but nothing to the level you people are talking about.

I recently went into a yahoo chat room to discuss my views of a recent movie. A heated debate got started and a day or two later was contacted by someone in the in the room saying the person I was arguing with the previous night was bragging that he had a friend get my IP address obtaining my home address and was launching an attack on my PC. I had pm’d the person I was arguing with but never this “friend” who supposedly is attacking my PC.

So I guess what I’m asking is: If a person is pming you is there any information they can send to a friend to have them trace your IP? Also if they did get my IP if someone is a higher end PC user can they go as far as getting my home address?

I work at an ISP, so I might be able to answere that question about them finding your address. The answer, is NO. ISP’s do not give out any personal information at all to anyone. The only thing an ISP is allowed to do is confirm information, after you tell it to them. As far as using the IP address to get your home address, no, false, can’t happen. The only address they’ll get from your IP address is the address of your ISP, and that’s it. Also, neo, you can’t get a person’s IP address by watching their cam, that only works if it’s in super webcam mode. From what I’ve had the chance to test, voice conferences also do not surrendur your IP address, but I’m not totally sure on that one. Also, there is no such thing as a “cyber cop.” That’s just a fancy futuristic term for a branch of the FBI that deals with “cyber crime.” Oh, yeah, and Cable internet is broadband neo, just so you know. At any rate, the only difference between Cable, DSL, Wireless, Fiber optic, T1, T3, and a LAN, is that Cable shares bandwidth with everyone in a designated area and operates over your cable (cable tv) connection, DSL opperates over the phone line much like dial up, but at a higher frequence, Wireless is as the name implies, Fiber optic uses Fiber Optic wires, T1 is a business connection that is rather fast and acts like an SDSL line, T3 is an upgraded T1, and a LAN is a network of computers that are isolated in one way or another from the internet, either by not having access to the internet at all, or through a router/server set up to host more than one computers’ internet access. This server/router then has the IP address given by the ISP, and the computers on the LAN (excluding the server, if there is a server rather than a router) have a seperate IP address that corresponds to the network, usually a number like 192.168.1.***. The IP address of the computer on said LAN does go through an address change every so often, but that doesn’t matter because the router/server acts as a proxy server (in fact, it IS a proxy server) and hides the IP address of the computers on the LAN. All internet connections, whether dial up or some form of broadband, have dynamic IP addresses, unless you specifically request a static IP address, and that costs extra money.

Umm, yeah, getting their IP address won’t help you any. If you’re freaked out about someone trying to do something with yours, chances are, they can’t. Most IP addresses are not static (unless you pay to have it static) so it will change ever so often. With dialup, it changes evertime you sign on, with broadband, it changes anywhere from 24 to 72 hours, depending on the ISP. Changing the slot you NIC resides in, doesn’t actually change your IP address, your ISP determines what IP address you have, and for how long. And no, if you block someone’s IP address, it won’t block them on yahoo. If you have a firewall like sygate, or zonealarm, or if you are using a hardware firewall, then you can configure it to reject ping requests (both icmp and ack/fyn) and then they can’t ping your computer, if they do have your IP address. They will most likely think that the address is fake. Since most people on yahoo (if not all) are script kiddies, then you don’t have anything to worry about cause the chances are, they dont’ know that. And no, the Yahoo servers do not forward you IP address at all, I’ve checked, and that question was answered a while ago on whether it does or does not by several people.

Umm, a firewall isn’t a must, but it is nice. One does not have to have one, seeing as how it doesn’t hide an IP address, it just restricts the traffic that comes in and out of the computer according to the policy programmed by the operator of the computer. There are a lot of people who don’t use any firewalls at all, and they have no problem with the internet. In fact, if you’re not computer savvy, then you might not want a firewall, it will most likely confuse you a lot.

ok this is what you do go to your start and then run bar
type in command or cmd this opeans a dos window
you will need 2 of these opean
in the first type in netstat -n 9 with the spaces hit enter on keyboard
the scond one tpe this in
netstat 9
ok he should be on port 5101 on the right side of your dos window
if hes not in it view his cam or let him view yours youll get his real ip that way.