Is There A Website That Shows Who Is At An I.P. Address?

[orleans]

i went to networksolutions.com/whois

and typed in the ip
the results were comcast cable communications holdings inc with a bunch of numbers and then a second comcast listing

is there a website where it is less general?

[LoZoccolo]

1. Um, would you want someone to find that out about /you/ so easily? n/t

[Midlodemocrat]

2. IIRC, it's kind of hard to do with some ISPs because

some ISPs have dynamic IPs and some have static.

I could be wrong though. This is from an incident at least a year old with Comcast when I was trying to track someone down.

[Captain Angry]

3. Probably won't get better info than that.

If it's on Comcast's network, it could be one of a million customer's personal websites. They'd never give up customer data, so it's probably the best you'll get.

There are many network tools that can try and get info but once it's on service provider's network, you probably won't get more info.

[zabet]

4. Yes. nt

[boppers]

5. *Who* is at an IP?

Not technically possible. The closest you can get is maybe identifying what kind of machine is using the IP, and where the ISP is located (if you know how to read a traceroute, or look it up in a geographic IP database).

Try:
http://www.hostip.info/

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Comcast hands those IP addresses out dynamically.

Now, when they do you can be sure they are in a log file somewhere and what they were doing on a log file in one of their "seep packet inspection" servers made by Sandvine. That said, getting those logs would necessitate a court order.

Your best bet, if you are being port scanned or other prima facae attack is taking place is to beef up your security. Get a good router, either wireless or wired. Put it between your DSL/Cable modem and your computers. Make sure that the firewall is setup and working. Do not forward a lot of ports and if you do, map to the ports above 32000. Check your firewall logs regularly, to make sure that everything is working correctly.

And if you are really serious about security, make your own router from an old computer with at least a PII, 128 megs of ram, a 10 gig hard drive, two nicks, the "Smoothwall" firewall/router/dhcp/dns software and a 10/100 switch. Smoothwall is very effective software.

[Speck Tater]

7. Try this...

In your browser address bar, type in http://xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa using the digits of the IP address and see what web page, if any, comes up. If it's the IP of a web page server you should see that web page. If it's an IP of a user, not a server, you won't get anything.

[Breeze54]

8. Just use your firewall search/trace .... n/t