IP Locator

[coot66]

So people are always worried about others using their IP to track them but can they really? I typed mine into a couple IP locaters I found on Google and have been told my IP is in NY, Virginia, and Australia...

-The Locating Coot66

[mestizo122]

Are you using a proxy, or are the ip locators just getting them wrong. I run a couple of websites and sometimes I have needs to check people's IP address (generally because of spam) and it locates them to a country (if out side the US) or to a large metropolitan area to a certain degree.

I think it is more of the locators just getting the wrong. ISPs issue the IP address and they have logs showing which account is assigned that specific IP address. If somebody really wanted they could find away to get that from the ISP. The legal system is a way to obtain these records. Look at RIAA, suing many of the illegal downloaders. They have to know who is attached to the IP address that has been implicated illegal activity.

[heavylee]

From what I've seen, the general public can't access very specific information based on IP address. As has been said, it can trace back to the ISP and a metropolitan area, but anything more specific would require obtaining information from the ISP that usually requires a subpoena (which is what the RIAA and MPAA do).

[ben_r_]

So people are always worried about others using their IP to track them but can they really? I typed mine into a couple IP locaters I found on Google and have been told my IP is in NY, Virginia, and Australia...

-The Locating Coot66

What IP did you type in? The Class C address (192.168.XXX.XXX)? or your cable/dsl IP, or something else?

[arjunsr]

http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

i've used this in the past, it occasionally is way off, but at least gives you the general area the person is. its been pretty good at figuring states, if not cities.

[rohanpatel]

http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

i've used this in the past, it occasionally is way off, but at least gives you the general area the person is. its been pretty good at figuring states, if not cities.

Use the built in Mcafee application. It is good.

[coot66]

What IP did you type in? The Class C address (192.168.XXX.XXX)? or your cable/dsl IP, or something else?

My IP is in this format: xx.xx.xx.xxx

http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

i've used this in the past, it occasionally is way off, but at least gives you the general area the person is. its been pretty good at figuring states, if not cities.

This sided showed my IP as NY, though I'm pretty sure I'm in CT...

-The CT Coot66

[Anonymouse]

IP addresses consist of 4 blocks seperated by a dot in the format xxx.xx.xxx.xxx
An IP block can be any number from 0 to 255
The first 2 blocks are the Administrative block, and they are publically available to services like NetRanger, or Net Tracker, or Whoisthis, or a jillion other IP administrative search programs.

The last two sets are the user block.
These are known only to the administrators of the purchased administrative block.
No matter how hard you try, even with a full IP address, you cannot find out anyone's Name or address in real space unless you get a warrant and make the IP server administrator match up a specific time with a specific address - then the record of who's lease was it becomes available to the warrant holder, by subscriber ID.

As previously stated, about as close as anyone can get is the location of the administrator of the large administrative block of numbers. If you live near but not in Chicago for instance, your trace will give up the name of an administrator who works in Chicago, but not necessarily 30 or 40 miles away where your town actually is. It will say something like so&so's name at a Chicago address for Charter's offices or whichever cable/DSL provider you use.

A full IP address does make your computer accessable to a determined hacker, but that is about as much risk as getting a ticket for spitting on the sidewalk. They can try to access the OS, but are unlikely to succeed if you have rudimentary protections in place.

[wetxlips]

I test my ip at http://www.aplusproxy.com/iptest/index.php and get my real locator.

[heavylee]

I test my ip at http://www.aplusproxy.com/iptest/index.php and get my real locator.

This tells the viewer what their IP address is, not what geographic area the IP address leads to.

[XXnarg]

Delete

[Anonymouse]

http://www.ip-adress.com/The information on that linky is very misleading and inaccurate.

NO IP Tracker can locate your home address. The very closest any tracker can do is locate the administrator of the large block of numbers purchased for an ISP provider, the first 2 sets of digits in a full IP string.
This return will be your city, or the city listed for the adminstrator it is registered to.
For instance, Charter COmmunications serves the Madison, WI and surrounding area.
If you check my IP address, you will see the name of the Charter administrator in Madison who handles inquiries for this IP address and thousands of others as well.....BUT, I do NOT live in Madison, I live in Monona, WI. If I lived 12 miles away in Sun Prairie, WI you would STILL get a Madison address for the administrator block.

:lol: GO ahead, try finding me using ANY IP tracker. If I am in a public phone book and you have my real name, THEN you could combine the information from the IP tracker to look me up, but the IP address alone is insufficient to do more than find my general location within 20 miles or so.

Today my IP address is 24.241.228.30
Enter that IP address HERE (http://www.ip-adress.com/) and look up my location.
The information revealed is My IP address: 24.241.228.30 (copy)
IP country: United States
IP Address state:
IP Address city: Madison
IP latitude: 43.0714
IP longitude: -89.3932
isp: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS
organization: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS
your speed: Cable/DSLMy home address is in Monona, WI, but if I lived in Baraboo, WI and subscribed to Charter, you would STILL get the same information and be off by 60 miles.

This is why I don't care one wit whether you have my IP address or not and why I am safe from any attempt to intrude on my computer as long as I maintain an active firewall and rudementary security precautions on my network here.

The information on that web site states;Are you aware that many websites and most hackers use IP addresses to monitor your personal business and that your home address and other personal information about you can be retrieved once your IP address is known? If your IP address isn’t hidden, virtually anyone with Internet access can track you directly to your home. Everyone can see this information - including hackers!It is designed to trick you through fear mongering, into - SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!! - buying a program called "Privacy Guard" which is worth about as much as the crap I leave in the toilet every day - maybe less. At least my crap can be converted to fertilizer and used for gardening. :coverlaf:

[XXnarg]

Delete

[heavylee]

The information on that web site states;It is designed to trick you through fear mongering, into - SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!! - buying a program called "Privacy Guard" which is worth about as much as the crap I leave in the toilet every day - maybe less. At least my crap can be converted to fertilizer and used for gardening. :coverlaf:


:scratch:I wonder if Anonymouse's crap has it's own IP address, and we could locate him that way. There may be some leftover floating packets in his TiSP (http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html) connection.

[danimal39]

visual trace http://visualroute.visualware.com/