Computer geniuses, I have a question for you.

[The Ghost]

Is there any way to get an IP address or the location of a person who makes a post on an internet message board such as Yahoo or something similar? If so, how do you do it?

-TG

 

[john937]

The only way I know is to have the board administrator
look up either the user@machinename or ip address.
Then with tcpip command like "host <ip>" you can get
the user and fully qualified machinename.
That still probably won't give you a place, but might
get you down to the level of business@city
If they're coming in thru something like AOL, you would
have to have a court order to get that info.

 

[Puc]

john is correct.


unless they are coming from a corporate firewall, the closest you are going to get is there general area. Unless, you work for network solutions...

Puc

 

[tomcat]

Agreed as well.. It's fairly simple to track down AVERAGE user's on the internet. The FED's do it all the time.

It does require a Judge's order to get it from a commercial site and even then it MAY only get you so close to their real location/identity.

 

[please don't ban me]

yea