ip tracing

z4955

is there any way for someone to put an ip trace on you from a yahoo chat room i.e. public game chat room?

chroot

Very unlikely without hacking into Yahoo. Their servers are going to strip out that kind of information when relaying your messages to other people.

- Warren

z4955

that's good to know since someone threatened to do an ip trace on someone I know and was concerned

chroot

What are they going to do with an IP address anyway? Script kiddies...

- Warren

z4955

they want to find out where we are located

z4955

I know they can get your ip from email but if you don't email or use messenger there is no way they can get your ip?

chroot

It's possible to locate you with a fairly specific location (say, a city) by IP, but not down to an individual house or anything.

You could also just send your email through an anonymizer.

- Warren

z4955

what is an anonymizer and how do you use it?

chroot

It's a public mail server that strips off the information relevant to the sender before passing it on. Do your own googling.

- Warren

z4955

thx.. thinking maybe the ip trace thing was just a bluff then

graphic7

Unless you live in a large city, chances are your IP is going to route to the nearest largest city. This is usually the case with dialup internet access, and sometimes Cable. DSL is more localized.

Goalie_Ca

try doing a tracert on yourself and see where the packets all get routed.

robphy

Try this applet http://www.visualroute.pl

By the way, if you somehow "directly connect" to someone you are chatting with, you might be able to see their IP address if you do a "netstat -a" in a shell.

gazzo

^^ eg, file transfer