Re: IP Tracking
From: Gandalf Parker (gandalf_at_most.of.my.favorite.sites)
Date: 06/11/04
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:43:21 GMT
Dimitri <pete_me_a@hotmail.com> wrote in news:ca4t4k$a02$1
@canard.ulcc.ac.uk:
> Is it possible to track down a specific machine in an internet caffe or
> univesity using an IP address? I am basically trying work out which
> Internet caffe someone is using to send emails to my account. Using the
> WHOis database I am only able to trace that its a hotmail registered IP,
> nothing much is available. Is there any other way I can pin it down to a
> machine?
Hotmail? Then you are using an email? The headers will show the trail it
used to get to you.
Try doing a traceroute. That can be helpful if the point on the route just
BEFORE the users machine is named in some clear manner. Often there is a
abbreviated name of a city in there.
Gandalf Parker
-- Been there, done that, fsck'd up, your turn.
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