Finding a proxies ip

Lump

In work we use lots of proxie servers, I need to find out the IP of them, without asking IT When I view my connections the have disabled the selections, so I can't view the ip's there. I have access to Command Prompt, is there any way either through that, or otherwise that I can find the IPs out?


John

Zombienosh

is it not "ipconfig" in command prompt

Keyzer

Lump wrote:

In work we use lots of proxie servers, I need to find out the IP of them, without asking IT When I view my connections the have disabled the selections, so I can't view the ip's there. I have access to Command Prompt, is there any way either through that, or otherwise that I can find the IPs out?


John

You try pinging the proxy server name, your companies DNS servers will resolve the name and it should give the ip address that way...
You need to ping the full proxy name i.e proxy.xxx.xxx.ie.com or whatever way its constructed...

seamus

www.whatismyip.com

This will give you the external IP of the current proxy through which you are connected.

Chances are, your company uses an internal network, using private Ip addresses. This means that your proxy has two addresses - an internal address and and external address.

The internal address is the one your computer connects to, and the external address is the one that your proxy uses on the internet. Depends on which one you're looking for.

So there are multiple possibilities.

Mantel

Try netstat -a in the command prompt if, as Seamus says, your company is using an internal you might be able to see the name of the proxy your connecting to. You'll probably get a few connections listed so happy hunting!

Lump

-AlcoholicA- wrote:

is it not "ipconfig" in command prompt

That'll give me my Ip

John

Lump

Hmmm all I want to do is connect IRC through a proxie...


John

seamus

Lump wrote:

Hmmm all I want to do is connect IRC through a proxie...


John

Now ya see....

I assume you've checked Internet Explorer for your proxy settings, but there doesn't seem to be one set up?

What is your IP address? We'll start the figuring out progress

Khannie

do what keyser said

You may not be able to connect to IRC through a proxy. In my work we have a HTTP only proxy. You can find HTTP access to IRC through a Java applet client (google it and you should find one handy enough)....but that doesn't work for me (might for you).

Lump

Tried, it doesn't work.


John

pickarooney

traceroute installed?

seamus

Khannie wrote:

do what keyser said

You may not be able to connect to IRC through a proxy. In my work we have a HTTP only proxy. You can find HTTP access to IRC through a Java applet client (google it and you should find one handy enough)....but that doesn't work for me (might for you).

It doesn't work for anyone behind a HTTP-only proxy. The Java applet runs on the client machine, and uses the same ports that the IRC client does.

Lump, what's your current IP? If you don't want to post it, even post the first two octets (i.e. xxx.yyy.)

bambam

yeah try, "tracert www.boards.ie" that should show all machines a packet is routed through. (traceroute on unix systems)

Capt'n Midnight

If you are connected you could use netstat -n and see what is listed on ports 8080 or 3128 other porxies will have similar addresses. If they are using non-std proxy ports you'll have to figure it out.

But if it's a half decent proxy it will limit access by IP or user or something so connecting to it won't work. Also they could be using transparent proxies...

if in a M$ shop try pinging wpac / wpac.mydomain etc..
lookup - proxy wpad setup - in google for the ways IE / netscape find a proxy , also look for *.pac files that may have settings in them

If it's a half decent IT setup then they'll be logging traffic so probably not worth the risk if your organisation has any sort of policy in place.

Keyzer

Lump wrote:

Tried, it doesn't work.


John

Do you know the proxy name?
If so, what results did you get when you pinged it?