aim ip finder

[sameintheend01]

anyone know how to find the ip address of someone using aim?

[clawhammer]

I tried using one of those on msn, and didn't find out anything, since all the messages were actually sent from msn's server, not directly from the other person. go to download.com and search for ip tracer.

[Webmaster_Zeus]

It purely depends on the connection that it creates on the server. With ICQ at one stage it relayed your IP or allows a direct connection between two users to be establish, I'm not sure if that's the case now except the actual IP itself may be encapsulated within an encryption algorithm so it will be difficult to extract it.

You can search the web for softwares which specifically targets chat clients of your choice and tries to get their IP, but it is on a "best effort" basis. But becareful with these softwares as most of them are virus infected. Pretty much that's it, what's the real reason for needing to know the other user's IP? is it because your trying to establish some sort of connection or gaming? if so they would be able to tell you their IP address.

[sameintheend01]

someone is stalking a friend of mine and she doesnt know his address for the cops (he might have given him a fake name). i want his ip so i can find out where he lives.

[Webmaster_Zeus]

Originally Posted by sameintheend01

someone is stalking a friend of mine and she doesnt know his address for the cops (he might have given him a fake name). i want his ip so i can find out where he lives.

Unless you manage to get a warrant to the right company which owns that subset of IP address, you won't be able to get anything, this is providing the cops is able to do something with the IP.

If its that bad hire out a private investigator and let them do the work, as I don't think it'll be easy to find an accurate IP finder, but good luck anyways and keep us inform.

[clawhammer]

Well, most likely not even a private investigator will be able to get anywhere, because the message is sent from aol's server to your computer, it's not a direct connection. You will probably need to get AOL to give you the IP address that the person uses, which is going to be very difficult.

[Webmaster_Zeus]

Originally Posted by clawhammer

Well, most likely not even a private investigator will be able to get anywhere, because the message is sent from aol's server to your computer, it's not a direct connection. You will probably need to get AOL to give you the IP address that the person uses, which is going to be very difficult.

This is on assumption that packets cannot be traced beyond the AOL server. In an open source computing system you have the ability to manipulate packets/datagrams and also to change the way it operates.

In a linux system you can change the data in a packet and the encapsulation mechanism to allow the packet to broadcast at interval to the original node which it sends from (the private investigater's computer) to know where it current locations is.

The packet itself will perform all necessary work on your behalf but you will definately need to know what your doing and what you'll be up agaisnt as these activities are so very illegal. Also another factor to account for is the various filtering system which the system's expert will be required to encourter (filtering system such as gateways, connection policies, firewalls, etc). These will further prevent the actions of the packet so there may be a lot of work required to be done, but as I said its not impossible, just a lot of work.

Altering of the encapsulation of packets is not recommanded as you really need to know what each layer does and how it effects it, plus it all have a finite size, so you'll need to accomodate for various protocols and sizes which the packet switched network may use.