Does anyone konw of a way to take an FQDN and resolved it to a physical location? It is for a Comcast home user. I have the IP of interest. I did the reverse lookup on it and got the FQDN and the city, state (in U.S.), but need to determine either the physical address or the individual's name.
Other than a subpoena to Comast, is there any other way to get the location and/or name info for the individual associated with the IP?
There are a couple of web sites that will get you in the vicinity (but are by no means accurate), but nothing short of a subpoena will get you the name of the individual.
Greetings,
And depending on the situation, the physical address or name associated with the IP address may not be connected with the person you're seeking. Bad guys used hacked systems all the time to cover their tracks. Further, if the address was handed out by DHCP, often the case with non-business connections, you're really going to need Comcast's help to demonstrate that the IP address in question was being used at a particular location at a particular time.
-David
Thanks for the replies - that is pretty much what we had been thinking too, but I wanted to check if there was some method that I might not be familiar with. It looks like a subpoena would be our next step.
There are also tools like the onion router.
"The Onion Routing program is made up of projects researching, designing, building, and analyzing anonymous communications systems. The focus is on practical systems for low-latency Internet-based connections that resist traffic analysis, eavesdropping, and other attacks both by outsiders (e.g. Internet routers) and insiders (Onion Routing servers themselves). Onion Routing prevents the transport medium from knowing who is communicating with whom – the network knows only that communication is taking place. In addition, the content of the communication is hidden from eavesdroppers up to the point where the traffic leaves the OR network."