IP Address

How can i find the IP address of my computer
do i use a program
Please help Thanks!

Well, if you use Windows, go to MS-DOS and type 'ipconfig' (without quotes) and it'll have it there.

Next time, just to make it easier for people to answer your question, give us some details about your system, such as what Operating System you use.

Greg

You could also use a program called winipcfg in Windows ME and lower... Its a GUI to the ipconfing command line :)

you can also type in same in dos i.e winipcfg.

And if you use an Operating System (hehe)
netstat or
ifconfig

if u r lazy u could just go to www.whatismyipaddress.com

Websites such as whatsmyipaddress.com have the caveat that they don't work for anyone behind a NAT or proxy of any kind (they simply report the source address from where they've received the packet(s)). Many ISPs these days are resulting to RFC1918 addresses (ie. IPs designed for "disconnected" or private network space) for their dial-ins or DSL lines and the like...

For windows, as was already said, "winipcfg" (for Win95, Win98, etc) and "ipconfig /all" (for "late-model" Windows boxes like 2k) will give you the address your machine is using.

For most UN*X boxes, the command you will probably need is "ifconfig" with proper options (usually "-a"). It should normally live under /usr/sbin/ifconfig or /sbin/ifconfig, depending on the flavor you are running.

of couse that would not work if u were behind a proxy becouse that is the point of proxys...spoof ur IP, anyway I was just asuming that he wasn't behind a proxy. Also it is just faster to use dos.

oh yeah i know the "real" point of proxys orinaly was to make "surfing the web faster" (coundn't think of a better way to put it right now)

goto start/run type in 'winipcfg'

if it begins with a 13 your in trouble


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K, while everyone changes the subject, what OS ya got?

oh why does this keep on going? lol every posible difernt way he could have found his IP have already been discoused:)

lol, i never knew there were some many was to check an IP address. i'd just go with the winipcfg in run my self

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Originally posted here by Mucolaca
of couse that would not work if u were behind a proxy becouse that is the point of proxys...spoof ur IP, anyway I was just asuming that he wasn't behind a proxy. Also it is just faster to use dos.

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Originally posted here by Mucolaca
oh yeah i know the "real" point of proxys orinaly was to make "surfing the web faster" (coundn't think of a better way to put it right now)

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The original point behind proxies was to protect an internal network and provide such features as content filtering. It's a lot easier to hide/secure a huge network on a "non routeable network," behind a single proxy and point everything at that bastion host than to secure a bunch of machines with routeable addresses. There's no real address "spoofing" going on, persay, just proxying... much like voting, you send someone out "on your behalf" to do your bidding. And, it's a lot easier for an admin to make sure the proxy is nice and strong rather than having to touch every desktop machine to apply a patch when M$ releases another beta... errr... release of Internet Exploder.

umm k well I may have been mistaken (witch i probley am) I have read difernt things from differnt places.

You might just be confusing a true proxy/firewall type server with a caching proxy like squid or Apache (the again, I don't think I was too terribly clear in my post, either).

[Technically, however, those tend to be "Web Caches" though their mechanism is through a "web proxy."]

oh I see, what ur saying now

or use your universal ip: 127.0.0.1 =) thats mine, and everyone elses.

or, go into dos: Start> run> "command"
then, type in ipconfig /all
or
type in "netstat" at the command and it'll show you the ip address of your computer.

netstat is also very nice to have around especially when you expect you have been hacked =)