One of my friends told me you could look up IP addresses through emails, and she gave me a site and I learned how to do it. The sites I found are authentic- I checked out my own IP address and it gave me the exact location and I did hers and the ip address of another friend’s, and those checked out too.
However, I have a friends who live in Ireland..and when i went to check THEIR IP addresses, it came up with weird results. It didn’t trace it to an exact home or location, it traced it to some Road Runner company…which is apparently a U.S company.
The site is authentic because it worked for my IP address, and obviously that means I am typing in the right code to get it…so why is it not coming up correctly for my friends that live in Ireland? Does it matter that the email addresses I traced were aim addresses? I traced my friend’s aim email and it worked just fine. It’s just driving me nuts. Are these sites just not compatible to trace international IP addresses or what?
*I meant to say friends, not a friends.
Hype wired- No I didn’t mean a trace to their exact house, lol. For me it traced my town/state..for them it just came up with some Road Runner crap. However, it traced my friend’s aim email. I just don’t get why it won’t work for them.
They’re probably using an off-shore proxy. No cause for alarm. They may not even know about it. It’s usually the ISP setting these things up automatically.