[thelist] finding ip addresses

[Jeff.Michna at wahchang.com]

Not much with out a court order.  I would read the ISP's policy on such
things and find out if it violates any rules.  If so, as people have mention
your only recourse is to submit to the ISP to have him booted.

But, one thing you can do is see if you can gather any information of the
computer.  Once I had a user that was scanning my computer once a week or
so.  I got sick of it and started to look at his computer.  The funny thing
is that he had a web server running on his computer with his personal
webpage, including his resume...  I sent him a nice little e-mail and never
had any problems with him again.  This is unlikely to be the case, but does
not hurt to look.

-----Original Message-----
From: kris burford [midtempo] [mailto:kris at midtempo.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 3:07 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] finding ip addresses


okay, have (finally) worked out where the message text files are being kept
and have found the ip address (read: one *badly* set up forum).

foolish question for today - how do i then identify the user from an ip
address... i've been to a whois service, found that the ip address refers to
a large isp (bt internet), but beyond that, i'm stuck...

kris




> hi all,
>
> a new client of mine has just rung me. they're currently
> running web bbs
> forum software (which i've no and have started getting
> malicious posts (all
> seemingly from one source).
>
> is there a simple means of finding out the ip address of the culprit?


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