Trace A web site and get it's IP Adress!

OK here is another cool trick using Microsoft's own CMD! to do this simply open CMD under "run" in your Start Menu.

At the end of this Instructable you will be able to...
-Trace A web site
-get a IP address
-Find where the web site was created

so lets get started!

• to get some basic info on CMD look at this Instructable....

http://www.instructables.com/id/CMD_find_and_control_Users_NET_passwords/

Step 1 The Trace Code

to simply get the IP address you first must have a net (Internet) connection. now open CMD.

you can try two codes, both will or should work!

tracert *add website here*
Example: tracert www.youtube.com
(see first picture)

or you can try...

ping
Example: ping www.youtube.com
(see second picture)

either will work.
now if you used the "tracert" code you will get 30 traces, the last IP that comes up at the bottom is the best, but you can also use the first code (refer to first picture). if you used "ping" the code will come up right away in ("[ code ]" ).

you can use this IP address to get pass any (or most) school content keepers (web site blockers).

however you can also use it to locate where in the world the web site is coming from....see next step...

Comments

[Jamez Britton]

absolutely brilliant

[ReCreate]

This is a bit weird...No?
Look

C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXXX>ping youtube.com

Pinging youtube.com 208.69.36.131 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 208.69.36.131: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=54
Reply from 208.69.36.131: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=54
Reply from 208.69.36.131: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=54
Reply from 208.69.36.131: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 208.69.36.131:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 56ms, Maximum = 102ms, Average = 70ms

C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXXX>ping opendns.com

Pinging opendns.com 208.67.219.101 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 208.67.219.101: bytes=32 time=199ms TTL=51
Reply from 208.67.219.101: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=51
Reply from 208.67.219.101: bytes=32 time=77ms TTL=51
Reply from 208.67.219.101: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 208.67.219.101:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 68ms, Maximum = 199ms, Average = 105ms

[michaelb958]

How is it weird?

[Roby718]

OH MY GOD!! I NEVER KNEW HOW TO DO THAT! not.

[TXTCLA55]

sarcasm? really? you know thats the lowest form of whit?...

[NachoMahma]

. Nice. I've been enjoying your command line iBles. They make for good refreshers. . For various reasons, IP->location lookups are frequently inaccurate. Eg, if you lookup my IP, you get a town about 200 miles away from me (my ISPs NOC). Last time I checked on one of my web sites (physically in the DFW, TX area), it reported Burlington, MA! Not usually a big deal, but be aware. . I'd suggest leaving out tracert or moving it to the bottom as a "BTW, you can do this, too." All the hops may be confusing to inexperienced users.

[TXTCLA55]

well thats the Internet unfortunally :( you may not be able to pin point the exact location but if you say its about 200 miles off,....well thats still pretty close in some terms. this Instructable I mainly here for those who want to get around school security, and if it interests them.....look where the web page came from. thanks for your comment!

[rir345]

much like the original GPS systems for civilions The US government had a system that would not give civilians the ability to pin point their position. in fact it often put your position up to 100ft away from your real position. this was due to the governments blocking system. the operation was later terminated and today you get the same accuracy as the military from that shiny new Tom Tom GPS.

[rir345]

Well I feal sorry for those of you that thought that this was "advanced hacking stuff" because its not. in fact its not hacking at all the ip address of web sites are not secrets there is just no need for them seeing as its easyer to type www.youtube.com in stead of 72.14.204.102 although ip addresses are still important to identifying web sites we type a URL instead of a URLs ip address making this tutorial pointless for web site tracing. although tracing personal computers can be useful... especially for all you stalkers out there.

[knexer87]

i typed in my schools website and it says its off the eastern coast of africa, does that mean its blocked, or the ip is invalid, or what?

[TXTCLA55]

most likely...unless you are actually on the east coast of africa I'd say the IP you put in is broken.

[ReCreate]

turn on drop shadows...

[TechNerd1012]

i know it probably isnt, but this feels fairly illegal :P great instructable!

[Derin]

Try 127.0.0.1

[EnigmaMax]

instructables is in dallas, texas...

[cyberwolf]

Well, it doesn't work on all sites, for example I've tried it with www.joymax.com and ping says the IP is 222.111.176.151 while the last IP visible with tracert is 211.192.60.38 but neither one works.
If you try to go to http://222.111.176.151 you just get an error "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)" and the other address doesn't even load.

Anyways, for most other sites it works so thanks for the tutorial.

About the IP Location, well, it shows the location of who registered the IPs not where the IP is actually located, so for example my ISP's main address is in town A and it doesn't matter I've in town B, it will always show that i'm in town A.
Also, for more info about an IP you can always use the Ripe Database http://www.ripe.net/whois which has a lot of informations.

[beavis2k]

I use the showip firefox extension, http://code.google.com/p/firefox-showip/ or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/590. It shows the site's ip in the status bar. It is customizable, so that you can use your own ip information site. I also love ip2location, but you need to add it manually to the extension.