Hi i was wondering if i can acquire an ip address simply from talking to someone on msn. please reply on other ways i can get this.
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Hi i was wondering if i can acquire an ip address simply from talking to someone on msn. please reply on other ways i can get this.
[QUOTE=Angry_Rat]Hi i was wondering if i can acquire an ip address simply from talking to someone on msn. please reply on other ways i can get this.[/QUOTE]
Yes, you can, although you probably know that with just an ip you can do pretty much nothing, apart from port scanning (unless they're running some sort of server. Bring up a command prompt (start, run - cmd) and type netstat -n. You should see a lot of ip numbers. The foreign address list is the only one you need to look at. On the foreign address list, you should see maybe a few connections to addresses, remember to ignore all ips begginning with **2.*68 or *27.0.0.* because these are local ip numbers, so you are connected to your own computer basically. Now, in msn, send them a file, image or anything, then, while its sending go back to the command prompt and type netstat -n again. Scroll up the list on your command prompt and compare this new netstat -n to the old one. You should see one new ip in the foreign address list, and a local one to the left of it. This new foreign address is their ip. This works because when you send a file, you make a direct connection to their ip, before you were just conencted to a central server for msn. If you have no new ips, then you must have missed the time when you were sending the file, or if there are more than one new ips then you have been doing something else while you were sending the file that was making new connections, so make sure msn is the only program using the internet.
info msn.com
NetRange: 207.68.*28.0 - 207.68.207.255
CIDR: 207.68.*28.0/*8, 207.68.**2.0/20
good luck