2016-02-03 at 9:34 AM UTC
If I had an IP address, could I locate it to an exact computer? If not could I locate it to a Building?
2016-02-03 at 9:35 AM UTC
For example I am at my local library right now, nothing hidden and my IP address is 85.12.68.100
Can anybody locate me?
2016-02-03 at 9:50 AM UTC
Usually. I'm assuming this is reflecting your PP question you made in BI. Honestly, your employer would almost certainly be able to track that down to the exact computer, but I believe it's all going to depend on what kind of logs and what not they have running. And because it's a business, they most likely would be able to track it down.
I asked a similar question on Zoklet about using a public WIFI hot spot and whether they could track down illicit activities and find out any info on the PC that did this from the hot spot. The answer was basically that if the router kept track of MAC addresses, then answer was yes. I'm assuming it's worse on a wired network but we'll wait and see what others say.
2016-02-03 at 12:04 PM UTC
It depends on the who would want to locate you, what kind of access they have. ISPs can generally tell who was assigned a specific IP address down the the router level. If the machine you're using is behind a large NAT, as in say, a college building or a coffee house with like 30 people, then your connection may have left traces in the logs (dhcp logs for consumer routers, normal logs for better hardware) which would include time, ip, mac address and probably more info. At that point, they would use physical means to ID you ie. your login info if you were using a public computer or they'd use camera footage to narrow down the range of suspects.
These are the options available to anyone with admin access - think the admins, law enforcement, ISP technicians, private security personal, etc.
If you're not one of them and you want to locate an IP address then you're shit out of luck. Unless you're prepared to do a lot of social engineering or a lot of legwork then there's no way to do that that I know of. The IP you provided says you're located somewhere in Bedford, UK and that the ISP for it is Jisc Services and that it's part of "Bedfordshire School NATs". You can also try to get more info by checking out what IP address range the IP belongs to, what organization it's serviced by and with that knowledge you might get more clues. I was looking for someone who accessed my site and this way I found that they were using an IP from a range owned by a company that leases lines in a certain geographical area, this company had a site that listed its clients, and by trial and error I was able to find which client the line belonged to.
2016-02-04 at 1:02 AM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
[FONT=Roboto][SIZE=14px]52°07'59.9"N 0°27'00.0"W[/SIZE][/FONT]
2016-02-04 at 9:16 AM UTC
Oh ok well that is about 50 miles ish away from where I am, but it could be related to that I am at a library and that is where the IP address is registered too.
2016-02-04 at 9:19 AM UTC
I have used my phone as mobile data and it come up with 213.205.198.125
What can be found?
2016-02-05 at 3:32 PM UTC
If one of you 'fine people' (Read: Muppets) tell me how to do it myself you can go back to posting on the kiddy porn story in GS
