Email Sender's IP tracking
Hello All,
I've a doubt. I've read in previous messages that the ip address of the sender computer will show up in the header of the recieving email. I recieved an email from a friend when both him and me were online(Actually he was chatting with me). From the email headers I figured out his ip to be 202.xx.xx.xx. But when I asked him(I know him very well, to be trusted), he told me that his ip was actually 192.yy.yy.yy. When I did a WHOIS search on the both ips, I found both of them to be from INDIA. (Lemme shoot out a doubt.. In some threads I found that the first part ie.202. or 192. represents the country. Then how come both the ips are from India ?)
My friend was from a internet cafe with cable connection.
Well coming to the point...
What is the ip showing up in the email header if it is not his actual ip ? Is there any way we can find the actual ip of the sender, while he sends an email to us ?
Thanx in Advance.
Re: Email Sender's IP tracking
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Originally posted here by mightysuraj
What is the ip showing up in the email header if it is not his actual ip ? Is there any way we can find the actual ip of the sender, while he sends an email to us ?
Thanx in Advance.
The IP in the header is most likely the SMTP server that routed the e-mail from him to you. The 192 IP Address is an internal IP likely served up to him via DHCP in the internet cafe.
You cannot likely trace it back to him, only back to the provider.
Cheers: