tracking down an ip address?

Question

tracking down an ip address?

Answer 1

Yes, they can track down your actual address, but they'd have to go through your ISP and it takes a court order to do that. There would have to be a legitimate reason provided to a court as to why there was need, e.g., evidence of a crime. You can still likely contact your ISP and request a different IP address if you're concerned about someone targeting your computer for some reason. Someone actually can hack another computer if they know the IP address and it's static, but if you have a modern machine with basic security software present, it's not usually going to be easy. On the other hand, if you have someone who knows what they're doing and they have your static IP, they'll probably eventually get in to some extent if they're dedicated. It would help to know more what the situation is, but if you haven't done anything blatantly illegal, you don't need to worry about someone getting your physical address. And if you think you're being targeted by someone, just contact your ISP and request a change of IP address.

Answer 2

You can only get the Country , city and State, street is very much likely to be inaccurate.



There are so many out there, one I use is http://www.ip2location.com

Answer 3

possible,but there is a list of the specific ip for specific location. u have to get it.u have to get the ip too.

Answer 4

google ip trace, about the best u can do is what city and county they r in!

Answer 5

An IP address can be traced to a suburb or city. This is because IP addresses are assigned to ISPs (a country), who in turn generally allocate them to an exchange (a suburb or city).



Looking this up is done by using a database of known ISP/exchange mappings. It's not always accurate because a) ISPs and exchanges change all the time, which will change the mappings, b) ISPs may not allocate blocks of addresses to exchanges, c) some ISPs, eg AOL, re-route and proxy their customers all over the country, so you can't even be sure of the correct state, let alone city.



There are plenty of sites that will provide this "geo-locating" for free, eg DNSStuff, or you can pay for a service to use it in your own products eg Maxmind.



Getting a full, accurate physical address from an IP address requires linking the address with the billing address via the ISP, they will keep records of which customer was assigned which IP and when. But they won't give it out without a court order.