How do you find out someone's IP? - Democratic Underground

Bouncy Ball

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:04 PM
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How do you find out someone's IP?

On that impeach judge Greer petition there's a guy threatening to find the IP of everyone disrupting on there.

How does one do that, anyway?

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ourbluenation

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:06 PM
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1. bump cuz I wanna know too

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lpbk2713

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:08 PM
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2. Unless he's an Admin he doesn't have access to that info ...... n/t

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ladjf

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:51 PM
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10. Everybody is an admin on their own computer.

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lpbk2713

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Thu Mar-24-05 08:42 PM
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12. Not everyone that has a computer can access their host server

at the highest levels.

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KitchenWitch

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:09 PM
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3. Kick

I have always been curious about that too!

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katinmn

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:10 PM
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4. oh-oh. I said something that he maybe didn't like.

Me and a hundred others.

What's he gonna do when he finds out???

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Orsino

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:16 PM
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5. You log into a server, and exchange packets with it...

...and the server logs the IP address it connects with to send you packets in return. It's probably a trivial matter for the server admin to find your IP, and block posts from it.

That's about it, unless s/he decides to report you to Homeland Security just to mess with you.

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Kathy in Cambridge

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:20 PM
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7. Does it matter whether you have a dynamic or static IP?

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Orsino

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:32 PM
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9. If your IP is dynamic...

...you're unlikely to post from that same IP again for a while after you disconnect. A static IP, presumably, doesn't change often, and is therefore easier for an admin to block.

An admin could also block posts from an entire range of IPs, in which case another dynamic assignment wouldn't get you through.

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crispini

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:19 PM
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6. That's bullshit, I did a petition on Petition Online as well.

Unless he is the actual webmaster of Petition Online I'm sure he can't do this. I was the owner of the petition and they were not all that responsive even to MY requests-- I'm sure they would not respond at all to one of the signatories' threats -- although they did return my emails in a couple of DAYS, that's the most they did when my petition got freeped.

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latteromden

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:27 PM
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8. That type of thing is usually an idle threat. Not much he can do with it,

anyway.

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Red State Rebel

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Thu Mar-24-05 06:53 PM
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11. Depending on the board, sometimes it's as easy as

clicking View then Source, you can scan thru the source code for the page and get the ISP's. I'm sure it doesn't work with all Boards tho.

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