Do You Know Your IP #?

[Treena Foster]

Funny thing is, I was at another site and saw someone with this in thier sig. I didn't give it much notice at first, then I thought to myself, hey that is my IP showing in that banner!
But everyone should only see thier own IP, not anyone elses.

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Treena

 

[Dave Castelo]

YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING AN IP OVER THE INTERNET RIGHT NOW

 

[Nick Gann]

Originally posted by Dave Castelo
YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING AN IP OVER THE INTERNET RIGHT NOW

OMG HELP ME!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!!





Oh... wait.... Dave, don't do that to me

 

[DEFELDUS]

wow, thats a neato smiley!

 

[Nick Gann]

So wait a second.... Is the one I see in your post, Treena, MY ip? So it is different for everyone who sees your post?


[EDIT] IT IS ME!!!! COOL!!!

 

[Figjam]

Originally posted by Nick Gann
So wait a second.... Is the one I see in your post, Treena, MY ip? So it is different for everyone who sees your post?

Yes
Take screenshots if you wish. But thatd be giving everyone your IP = not smart. Too bad it bombed on my browser, i dont use IE.

 

[jrthebassguy]

that is so stupid...it says I'm on IE 6, when I'm so on Opera.

 

[Mr.QuakQuak]

AH OMG OMG AHH *Runs in circles*

*Runs stright into a metal poll*

CRASH !!! NOICE NOICE MORE NOISE.

 

[Ty McNeely]

Originally posted by Treena Foster
Funny thing is, I was at another site and saw someone with this in thier sig. I didn't give it much notice at first, then I thought to myself, hey that is my IP showing in that banner!
But everyone should only see thier own IP, not anyone elses.

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Treena

Funny thing is--

my computer is cool. It DOES say that my IP is at baylor.edu, but it gives the wrong one

My firewall is virtually impenetrable.

 

[Sheep Man]

Ummm...
It's way off for me...

 

[sonicaddiction]

I think the strangest thing is how it knows that my kung fu is better than your kung fu. Scary...

Edit: Ok, it changes message every time...

 

[JMX]

Originally posted by Ty McNeely
Funny thing is--

my computer is cool. It DOES say that my IP is at baylor.edu, but it gives the wrong one

My firewall is virtually impenetrable.

That's not your firewall, it's your proxy server.

 

[B'Aces High]

Bombed on my browser too...i havent used IE in a long time. I only use Opera.

 

[wulf]

When you connect to a website, your browser makes a request for the page and any associated content to be sent back to it. The protocol for doing this dictates passing a bunch of information including the IP address (or firewall), browser type and platform you are using.

It's not rocket science to extract it - although putting it in the graphic using some server side magic is a neat idea.

BTW, many websites are set up to not work if not viewed with IE because the designer hasn't checked them with anything else. To circumvent this other browsers, such as Opera, allow you to pretend to be using IE, thus giving the apparently erroneous result. FWIW, my setup - Firebird, running on Linux - is reported accurately

Wulf

 

[Joris]

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[soundoholic]

why is it a big deal for them to "know" you ip. You can just look it up on your pc in My network connections. I can't remember how to do it on a MAC. At Invalid Link Removed it didn't read mine which is probably good. I love firewalls.

 

[Phat Ham]

Originally posted by soundoholic
why is it a big deal for them to "know" you ip. You can just look it up on your pc in My network connections. I can't remember how to do it on a MAC.

If you are running OS X go to system preferences > network. Then select whichever method you are using to connect (ethernet, airoport, etc). click on the TCP/IP tab and it shows you your IP address.

FWIW, I'm on my University's wireless network and it got my IP address right.

 

[downstairs]

It gives me some 24 number when i have a 192 number, sweet, my little router works!

 

[Skorzen]

Another Opera user here

 

[feckn_eejit]

Originally posted by Figjam
Yes
Take screenshots if you wish. But thatd be giving everyone your IP = not smart. Too bad it bombed on my browser, i dont use IE.

Seems to work OK on MozillaFirebird...
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Hack me, ping me, baby.

--jeff