IP tracing
 

More than happy to pay for a *good* one - but wondering on which programme anyone recommends for getting information on IP numbers.

I'd be curious about the information in "headers" on e-mails but I really want it to track down where the listeners are to my radio station (http://s4.secondstreams.com:8430).

The streaming server gives me real time data of IP's that are listening - but I'd like to find out who they are, where they are and - if possible - how to contact them.

I've seen a bunch from Germany, Australia, USA, China and - today - London.

I'm not advertising this stream - so how do they know about it? It was designed for "Second Life" - but the listeners would have to be on "my land" to listen to it, and I know they are not.

Starting point is a whois lookup, for which you don't need a programme[sic] and don't need to pay anybody.
The whois might give you the ISP, but you'd then have to get the ISP to tell you who the user was, for which a warrent issued by an appropriate local authority would be a jolly good start.
Well, you can quite often find out a vague hint as to geographical location, eg if an IP address is owned by an ISP in Botswana there's at least a chance that the user who has that IP address at a particular time is in Botswana ... but you won't do much better than that without a warrant.
Again, start with a warrant.

Or, you could just pay a private detective lots of money and not enquire too closely into the legality of their methods, I suppose.

Since 99% of your l'isteners' we have IPs allocated by their ISPs, I cannot see how you can do more than locate the ISP?

Bugger!!!!

Could you not add a page to the site asking them to sign a guest book and leave a message? At least some of them might respond

Not looking for owt like this are you?

IP Address Locator - Enter an IP address to find its location - Lookup Country Region City etc

There's also ones with fancy maps as well.:ok:

Ok, I think I'll get out of the computer forum now.

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