IP Address????

Question

if i have an IP address, how do i figure out whose it belongs to?? I can i figure out the identity of the user of the IP address??

Answer 1

You may be able to get to the owner of the IP address, but you will probably have to be a police officer to get the identity of the person using it. The reason is that home computers don't have a set IP address and the addresses they use are owned by their Internet Service Provider (ISP).

The place to start is www.dnstools.com. You can find out who owns the IP address and where they are, probably, located.

If the person is harrassing or stalking you online, you can send an email to the abuse contact for the ISP (try abuse@ or root@) stating the person using that IP at whatever time has been harassing you and see if that can't get you some help.

Answer 2

Rather confusing questions, but I'll attempt to answer them. An IP Address is a bunch of numbers that says that your computer is different than others. There is external and internal IP Addresses. Internal is the IP address the computer is given to make it different than other computers on the same network or using the same internet connection. The external IP Address makes your computer different to all others in the world connected to the internet.

To find out the identity of someone just from an IP address is difficult. You can usually find out the country and ISP (Internet Service Provider) through a traceroute. A site offering a script is under sources. You usually can't directly find out who it actually is. If they have a website address (www.........) you can do a Whois lookup and it can sometimes bring up their address and telephone number. A word of warning: Using this data to produce unsolicited calls and mail is against the law.

EDIT: I almost forgot, a lot of ISPs set their customers to have a roaming IP address. In other words, their external IP address is constantly changing.

Answer 3

You can trace it to whatever network has control of that IP address (or range of addresses)

To get down to the level of which computer using that address or range of addresses, you need the cooperation of whoever controls said address or range of addresses.

To get to the actual individual using a specific address, even knowing the number and associate range, you are going to need alot of luck - its not very easy when you get that granular.

If the most accurate you can get is to the ISP or Corporate range level, now you are dealing with the business end of things - its not a technological but legal/political battle. That said, at that level, the techniques have to change (ie - a trace route isn't going to help when it is now a legal issue - now the method switches from technology to law)

Bottom line - you can trace things to an extent, but after a while, the technological facts become irrelevant. At that point, you need legal facts. Two totally different arenas.

Answer 4

The best you can do is determine the general proximity and the service provider of that person. The actual identity is known only to the service provider and that information is confidential.
The RIAA has been trying for years to get major service providers to give them unrestricted access.
Some providers have refused completely - others make them jump through hoops galore w/ the legal dept.

In other words - it would require hacking into some very secure databases to find out who had the IP address on that particular time and date.

Answer 5

Difficult.

Most IP's are Dynamic so they change.
You can not tie a person to a specific IP usually.

I hope this helps !

Answer 6

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Answer 7

i don't know about finding out someone elses, but this site will tell you your own :

http://www.whatsmyip.net/

Answer 8

umm if you dont know anything about computers... then GOOD LUCK