So how can people get my IP address from then?
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If you are really worried try an IP address blocking/scrambling programme. A good free one is ProxyWay.
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If you mean how you can get their IPs in real time, I don't know.\n\nBut if you just need to find their IP once [and assuming they have a static IP], it's easy.\n\nOn a Windows machine, type "ipconfig" into a command prompt to find that machine's internal IP.\n\nI'm not exactly sure how it's done on Linux, as I've always had my IPs handed to me from sys admins. But I assume that if you're setting up a network with Linux you know how to do that.
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your IP address shows which country you are living,so the only way is to use a proxy server which is inside US so they can't  \nfind it out.you can find so many free proxyservers by searching in google.
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you can go to www.dnsstuff.com and check it in ip who is section. pretty neat/http://www.urgentclick.com/address_trace.php\nyou can also download the visual traceroute\nfrom visualroute.visualware.com
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You can not get the emailers ip address normally, but what you can get is the ip address of the server that the mail was sent from.
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This is a neat little trick I used to do, but you might have to be a little computer savvy to pull it off.\n\nFirst, open up a command prompt [Start Menu...Run...type 'cmd'...it will bring you to the black screen]. Type 'netstat -n' and it should show you a list of ip addresses you are currently connected to.\n\nNow...get that person to direct connect to you. Type 'netstat -n' again. There should be one extra ip address. This address will be the ip of the person with whom you're directly connected.
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everytime you log on to the net you take an "IP address".\n\nIts basicly your position on the net.\n\nYou can do a whois search to find out where the IP is from, in general, but, you can not get an axact address based on an IP.
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type "what is your ip address and your computer's name?"
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They can easily find out who owns the IP address block that IP resides in, by using the regional network centres lookup databases.\n\nIf you have a small, local ISP, own the IP block yourself, or you are using the connection of somebody that owns the block, such as a company or school, this would give somebody a bit more information about where you might be.\n\nIf you are using a normal, large ISP, they can track it to the ISP only.\n\nYou cannot hide your IP address, as nothing can communicate with you if it doesn't know your address, it's where you are on the network (internet in this case).  You can use a proxy server, that would handle requests on your behalf, so the final destination doesn't see your address, but not all proxy servers are for anonymity and pass your details on, and they slow things down if you trawl the internet for free ones.
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Tell them to go to www.whatismyip.com or go to command line and type ipconfig
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try \nifconfig\nit should display your IP Address
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you mean your IP address?\n\nwww.whatismyip.com
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You will have to get a court order and subpoena the Internet provider that the IP address belongs to. Then the provider will give you the actual final users location.
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Sorry for the wrong posts that people have told you. \n\nYES you can know the persons ipaddress IF HE emailed you.\nIf he sent you one email, then you could view the headers of that email to see the originating IP of that user. For example if your using hotmail, you can goto settings and enable advanced headers, then when you view his email you could veiw raw email meaning you would see all the header information of that email. Same thing applies for AOL.\n\nYou CANNOT know the ip address if you just have the EMAIL address. Since an email address is virtual. MSN Servers own that so you cannot know his email address unless you two have some sort of communication together. Like chatting, sending emails, sending files, anything that puts you two guys together. By a simple packet sniffer you could acheive that.\n\nGood luck on finding the IP :)
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i have a phpbb forum and the only thing you can do with it is check who is providing the internet to that service...its a way if that person is posting illegal stuff..like how to make bombs and stuff you can just contact there isp and they'll handle the rest...thats whats its basically for.. but im not sure if they can obtain general location cause thats not possible unless they hack into the ISP. only thing your gonna get is IP address and service provider
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http://www.iwebtool.com/reverse_ip
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As already mentioned every computer uses an IP address and you can find out approximately where that computer is located (the name of the town or county or metropolitan area) easily. Past that you do have to goto the service provider, BUT its not a simply ask kinda thing unless you are law enforcement with a warrant. so if you're worried about some jerk telling you he knows where you are because of your IP address.. its very doubtful.