Yeah but then again in that case it would be authorised activity for which they would allow each other to see their IP addresses. but when we are talking about illegal hacking thats when they need to find out the ip addresses without asking all nicely and decently from the host computer.

Thats what i wanted to know how do the third party tools the ones that Maulth mentioned would work to find out the ip addresses.

Raj

Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I've never actually went in search for a person's IP, unless they had done something to me first, which I then used varying "third party" tools to find their IP. When I'm talking about something like ventrilo, or game servers, you can go in the console and get the person's IP. The most common way to find them is not to even bother them

I don't really understand the last sentence but what i make out of it was, if you do find the IP for someone then just leave it at that without messing with it. Hope I got it right.

Now not to offend you in any way or form, If I ask you to find my IP then how would you go about it. I am not even linked to any game server apart from my company server which i take it is pretty darn safe.

Raj

i know your IP. Im a moderator so i can see it. You give it to this site whenever you view it (you request the page, and it is sent to your ip for viewing)

But i was wanting to know how would a hacker go about finding out, gven that he does not have the access what you would have? You have got it easy my mate

May be its not PC's IP that Website can detect of guest...Its might be ISP's Router address.

true.

nope it was the pc one that u can see fella

how can i see it.....? and how to get an ip address of any site or computer... step by step

@technogeek
I'm not going to give you step-by-step instructions on how to hack somebody, this is ONLY an informational thread, and if it turns into anything other than that, I will quit posting in it.

Usually I could get your IP via exploits in a forum board, or MySQL injection. But since I'm 100% sure there are alot more intelligent people here than me, and I would like to remain part of daniweb, I won't do it here. I'm almost certain I wouldn't be successful anyhow. MySQL injection it probably the most common way of getting someone's IP. You cannot just randomly get someone's IP, there is no magic trick, a "hacker" must rely upon lower sources of information to find his target. The problem with that nowadays is that people can mask their IP addresses easily, ex. Hide my IP (program), Proxies, ect. A forum database records IP addresses upon login, and if I were to use MySQL injection to steal the db, wouldn't be hard to get your password, IP, email, ect..