[thelist] Seeing IP addresses: Used to be: CoffeeCup Free HTML

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Thu Jul 13 16:51:01 CDT 2000


Alessandro wrote on 13/7/00 7:55 pm

>But here's my question... so you have some guy's IP address who tried to
>commit credit card fraud. Unless he has his own server, all you recorded was
>his ISP's IP address. Is there a way for that ISP to subtrace the actual
>account number or user, especially if he was using some large ISP? Wouldn't
>most ISPs only be able too generate a list of users logged in at that
>particular time?

Nope. ISPs log DHCP allocation, principally for TOS violations (spam 
header
tracking most often). I don't know how long they keep them for though.

Cheers
Martin




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