Hey Hey,

I'm wondering if there is a language barrier here....

As best I understand the original question it is asking if you can determine the IP address of the actual machine the person is on if they connect using a BNC/Proxy.

Based on how djscribble read it and replied... I would assume he figured juicypeanut was asking how to find out the IP Address associated to a hostname

If djscribble interpretted it correctly, then the easiest answer would be /dns in mIRC or nslookup in Windows2k/XP/*nix.

If you are asking the first... then for all intents and purposes the answer is no.. As someone stated if you had access to the machine that the BNC was on... then yes.. you could determine the users actual IP address... Another way would be to post a website you have access to the logs of and hope the person clicks on the link....

The entire purpose of a BNC is to hide the persons IP Address... if there was a very simple way around that then no one would bother to use a BNC.... It's like hostname masking on an IRC server... it can be beaten... but not easily or without a great deal of time and effort...

Peace,
HT