TRACKING IP ADRESS
METHOD OF HACKING
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Open a command console. On a Mac,
it's called Terminal and it's in the
Utilities folder. On a PC, click on Start,
then Accessories, and then Command Prompt.
This will let us ping any website to find out the
IP address of that website.
Open a command console. On a Mac,
it's called Terminal and it's in the
Utilities folder. On a PC, click on Start,
then Accessories, and then Command Prompt.
This will let us ping any website to find out the
IP address of that website.
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Ping an address. This sends a signal out to a URL—like a sonar, hence the name—which then bounces back with the website information attached, and how long the round trip took.
Ping an address. This sends a signal out to a URL—like a sonar, hence the name—which then bounces back with the website information attached, and how long the round trip took.
- Type "ping [URL]" - example: ping www.facebook.com.
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Press return. The IP address should appear beside the website name, followed by how many seconds or milliseconds the ping took.
Press return. The IP address should appear beside the website name, followed by how many seconds or milliseconds the ping took.
- The format of an IP address is numeric, written as four numbers separated by periods. For Facebook, the IP address is 69.171.237.16.
Method 2 of 4: Email IP Address
Open your email client. To find the IP of an email sent to you, you can investigate the message's headers—that stuff that looks like a keyboard exploded on the message.
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Show headers. From the View menu, select the option that lets you view all or extended headers, and your To/From section will blossom with new information. From all that information, you only need a couple bits to search for.
Show headers. From the View menu, select the option that lets you view all or extended headers, and your To/From section will blossom with new information. From all that information, you only need a couple bits to search for.
- Next to the Received section you will see something like "from..... and an IP address as described above. Select one of those, and copy it to the clipboard. In this case, we'll select 66.220.144.152, and copy it. We can see that it says Received from mx-out.facebook.com, so we'll do a test to see if that's accurate.