ip address

paky

is it possible to find out someones ip address? what information do i need?

chin_grin

There are two IP addresses one internal and one external of each pc on the net. I know a norton product could actually get the location of the person trying to 'attack' you, but I doubt that'd be accurate considering proxies.

You could give this article a read.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tracing-a-hacker/

Jake Rugby Walrus666

Packet Sniffer.

chin_grin

Jake Rugby Walrus666 wrote: »

Packet Sniffer.

Like Wireshark.

http://www.wireshark.org/

Departed

paky wrote: »

is it possible to find out someones ip address? what information do i need?

if you get an email from them it should be in the headers

mach1982

paky wrote: »

is it possible to find out someones ip address? what information do i need?

Yes very easy , but may I ask why?

Recessionbust

mach1982 wrote: »

Yes very easy , but may I ask why?

Have to admit I am curious how is it so easy and also surely the information gathered from it is of no actual use?
Excuse my ignorance on this I am not that well up on Tech just curious

Departed

Recessionbust wrote: »

Have to admit I am curious how is it so easy and also surely the information gathered from it is of no actual use?
Excuse my ignorance on this I am not that well up on Tech just curious

see this

MiniNukinfuts

Each external IP address is unique, and each one is tied to a geographical location. Look at this site, it tells you what your IP is and where you are and other various bits of information about you.

Then using an application that forges HTTP requests (e.g. Paros), they could use your IP pretending to be you.

There are loads of tools to find IP addresses, Wireshark is one already mentioned and it's the most well known.

Departed

MiniNukinfuts wrote: »

Each external IP address is unique, and each one is tied to a geographical location. Look at this site, it tells you what your IP is and where you are and other various bits of information about you.

Then using an application that forges HTTP requests (e.g. Paros), they could use your IP pretending to be you.

There are loads of tools to find IP addresses, Wireshark is one already mentioned and it's the most well known.

very loosley at least mine is way out

MiniNukinfuts

Departed wrote: »

very loosley at least mine is way out

Yeah, i should've mentioned that. On eircom, my IP would map directly to my house, but on UPC, it maps to about 5km away on the other side of the city. All to do with the individual networks, like if you tether your smartphone's internet to your laptop, then lookup your ip, it'll map to you

Departed

MiniNukinfuts wrote: »

. On eircom, my IP would map directly to my house,

how close to the house? my eircom is way out . Different city

MiniNukinfuts

Departed wrote: »

how close to the house? my eircom is way out . Different city

Right on top of it. This was about 4 years ago, before I switched to UPC. They might have a proxy in place now to prevent the direct mapping

kippy

mach1982 wrote: »

Yes very easy , but may I ask why?

Whats my IP address?

MiniNukinfuts

kippy wrote: »

Whats my IP address?

Go to this http://www.whatsmyip.org/ it'll tell you

kippy

MiniNukinfuts wrote: »

Go to this http://www.whatsmyip.org/ it'll tell you

mach1982 suggest it was very easy to find out what another persons IP address was. I wanted to see how easy it was for him to get my IP address to prove a point.
(I know what my IP address is)

_AVALANCHE_

mach1982 wrote: »

Yes very easy , but may I ask why?

kippy wrote: »

Whats my IP address?

And mine?

MiniNukinfuts

Click this link and navigate to the bottom of the page. There's a tool to do this.

kippy

MiniNukinfuts wrote: »

Click this link and navigate to the bottom of the page. There's a tool to do this.

A user has to physically click on that for it to work.......

MiniNukinfuts

kippy wrote: »

A user has to physically click on that for it to work.......

It still logged a few IP addresses.

There are other ways to log your IP, but we'd have to be communicating directly with each other and not from You to boards, boards to Me. Boards is protecting our IP's, as do most other websites

You would be surprised how many people can fall for the trick I posted above.

kippy

MiniNukinfuts wrote: »

It still logged a few IP addresses.

There are other ways to log your IP, but we'd have to be communicating directly with each other and not from You to boards, boards to Me. Boards is protecting our IP's, as do most other websites

You would be surprised how many people can fall for the trick I posted above.

Lots of people probably fall for it.
However, it is not "Very very" easy to find out a "persons" IP address unless you have access to a number of resources and even then.......

MiniNukinfuts

kippy wrote: »

Lots of people probably fall for it.
However, it is not "Very very" easy to find out a "persons" IP address unless you have access to a number of resources and even then.......

Agreed, I wasn't the person who said that, it's not easy, but it's possible under the right circumstances.

kippy

MiniNukinfuts wrote: »

Agreed, I wasn't the person who said that, it's not easy, but it's possible under the right circumstances.

I agree and I realise it wasn't you that said it. As I said, I want to prove a point that its not very easy unless the right circumstances are met.

MiniNukinfuts

Here's an interesting site about this issue actually

paky

mach1982 wrote: »

Yes very easy , but may I ask why?

i live with a computer nerd whoes doing a phd and he requested my email address when i moved in. i thought nothing of it until recently when i had a discussion with a friend about ip addresses and the like, something i dont know much about. i recieved an email from the phd nerd recently about rent even though i live in the fcuking room right next to him, one in which he never leaves. the student website has a database where all our email addresses are on and he could of used this to contact me or my phone or he could of used facebook, even thought my facebook account is set up with a now defunct email address. i thought it was a very peculiar request when he asked me for my bank account details aswel. he said the reason for this was so he could give me my deposit back when i moved out? my friend has me worried about this software whic is availabe that can bypass your security if the person has your ip address....should i be?

MiniNukinfuts

paky wrote: »

he asked me for my bank account details aswel.

You live with a nigerian prince? jealous.......

paky

MiniNukinfuts wrote: »

You live with a nigerian prince? jealous.......

how did u figure that?

MiniNukinfuts

To answer your main question, what possible benefit would he have from hacking you IP? It's not as if you're the CIA.

Wetai

MiniNukinfuts wrote: »

To answer your main question, what possible benefit would he have from hacking you IP? It's not as if you're the CIA.

One thing I can think of is if you play a lot of MMOs and your opponents are childish/immature/dont like to lose.

In a game I used to play they'd tell someone to go to a location in the game (Where they could be killed and their items looted, in a Player-versus-Player area), and tell the person to go onto their thread on a forum where they had images embedded in the thread located on their (clan's) website. They'd grab the person's IP as they accessed their site, and [D]DOS them for their stuff when they'd be disconnected/have very high lag.

They forum has since stopped allowing people to embed images except from a list of reputable sites to prevent this. It's not an everyday example of what people can do with your IP, but still..

Departed

MiniNukinfuts wrote: »

Here's an interesting site about this issue actually

what is that about? jpeg of a link is all i get?

MiniNukinfuts

Wetai wrote: »

DDOS them for their stuff when they'd be disconnected/have very high lag.

Yeah, forgot bout DDoS attacks, they're so easy to do nowadays with the LOIC too

Tea_Bag

I know my IP already, but I was curious to see what it knew about me.

not much, as expected, but I love how it detected Linux and said: 'Smart move!!!'


to the op, if he lives with you, he already knows your IP address.

if you're worried about him going through your digital world, you should make sure your PC doesn't share your files and folders across the network, if you're both on the same network.

MiniNukinfuts

Departed wrote: »

what is that about? jpeg of a link is all i get?

Whenever someone clicks on that link, like you did, it records your IP address into a log file for me to see. I was showing how it's relatively easy to get people's IP's