Proxy IP addresses?

[BOUNCER]

Is there anyway to trace them back to the originator?.

[GREENMACHINE]

this is the best could come up with.

Trace IP address, email or IM to owner or user Whenever you get online your computer is assigned an IP address. IP address is the Internet Protocol (IP) address given to every computer connected to the Internet. An IP address is needed to route information much like a street address or PO box is needed to receive regular mail. email addresses are not IP addresses. An Example of an IP address is: 68.34.182.112

The Trace IP address service helps you searchlocation of any IP address. It searches the City, State, Country, longitude & latitude of where the computer with that particular IP address is located and also Includes name and address of the owner of IP address. The Address for email, IP or email name searches for the physical street address of the user. You can trace IP addresses of computers located in USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, India, Turkey, Bahrain, Dubai, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru and Argentina, Each computer on the Internet has a unique numeric address similar to a phone number. This address is usually assigned to the user's Internet service provider, a university or a company. A database matches such assignments to the location the network has registered. But IP addresses can all be registered to one office of the internet service provider or company even though they may have branch offices worldwide. An ISP like America Online may route its customers' traffic through a single gateway, making AOL users in Kansas appear to come from Virginia. Therefore the IP database needs to be refined, tracing data packets as they pass through traffic nodes known as routers and narrowing the actual location of each IP address. It requires detailed analysis of how do various carriers work, how they set up their network, how carriers differ from each other. This data is mapped to specific blocks of geographic areas and physical addresses. Zip codes and census data are mapped to these geographic blocks to create demographic profiles. In addition to utilizing various search techniques, searching of any available databases enables researchers to search the geographic location of a computer through its IP Address. In addition the location of IP addresses is also verified through an extensive database of the geographic mapping of IP addresses. This mapping of IP addresses to their geographic locations is updated frequently by IP information submitted from various strategic geographic locations, using many different Internet Service providers. This allows the database to create current mapping of IP addresses to their geographic locations. This database can also map location names (street, city, state, country) or US zip codes to latitude/longitude values. This information is verified through other IP address information sources. Every time anyone connects to the internet they are leaving their IP fingerprint and ISP domain name and other bits of information behind. The hops data packets make between IP's and the time required for the hops also helps in creating a map of locations. Often times this could reveal what city and state that person lives in. Many search engines archive a whole copy of the internet at regular intervals. Often times other people, pages or sites mention or list bits and pieces of information. Every activity on the internet leaves bits and pieces of information lingering around. Deducing and analyzing the bits and pieces create leads. Computer related searches estimate results by analyzing patterns, statistical probability, demographics and any other observations available. In some instances IP address mapping could provide time intelligence pertaining to when the computer was connected to the internet. In other words it can help find out the location of the IP address at a particular date in the past. Depending on the sampling search can also go back to a building address and not the individual units in the building. Search returns all addresses if multiple addresses are found. Email addresses and IM names can be traced through the IP, back to the location from where the account login takes place. The search path is a continuous interaction and overlapping of induction and deduction, of theoretical hypotheses and empirical evidence. What is the difference between a Domain Name, an IP Address and a Computer host Name?
Domain names are similar to vanity phone numbers where words are assigned to represent the phone number. Domain name is a text name that a computer network registers for the numerical ID of the computers in the network. The domain name is used to give computers text names rather than using the numeric IP addresses. Domain name examples are Abika.com, cnn.com, usatoday.com. Computer (host) name are names given to individual computers. Each host name corresponds to an IP address. Host names and domain names are optional and everything can work fine with using just IP Addresses. Examples of host names: www.cnn.com, mail.people.com, Cust149.tnt3.sfo3.da.UU.net and so on. Can you locate a computer by pinging it?
By pinging another computer on the internet you can tell if it is currently active and how long it takes to get information from the originating computer to the destination and back. Ping sends signals (packets) to another computer on the Internet or a network to see if they send a return or an 'echo.' If all the signals 'timeout' the computer may be disconnected from the Internet or is unreachable. This feature only checks if a computer is connected. It cannot verify the validity of an e-mail address. It also cannot check a specific web page.
What is tracert or trace input?
Tracert traces the route data packets take through the Internet from one computer to another. The signal generally goes from a computer to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and then to their provider until it reaches a 'backbone' provider. This could take one or many steps. It then eventually transfers to the destination 'backbone' provider and reverses the process to the destination computer. This feature only checks a computer that is connected to the Internet, it cannot verify the validity of an e-mail address. It also cannot check a specific web page. Note that a traceroute may follow a completely different path as compared to downloading web pages or sending e-mail. A Trace route gives you information about each computer between the originating computer and the destination, including ping times, IP addresses and the names of all of the computers. What is a Reverse DNS Lookup?
A Reverse DNS lookup will give you the name of a computer as listed in the Domain Name Server databases maintained by the ISP's from the IP address. What are fake IP Addresses and what can affect the accuracy of IP traces?
A fake IP Address is one that does not appear in any ISP's BGP (Border Gateway protocol) tables and accordingly can not carry traffic. IP Maps that are built from real traffic do not contain the locations for fake IP Addresses. Research shows that a majority of the theoretical total of 256*256*256 = 16,777,216 subnets are either fake subnets, or don't carry any traffic at all. In addition to fake addresses, the IP map may not contain addresses of low traffic subnets or infrequently used subnets. Where the map does show very low traffic subnets, it's resolutions may not be as dependable due to the proportionately low number of points that are available on these subnets. The impact of this on real world performance is limited because it is confined to the larger number of subnets which carry practically no traffic. On the other hand, because the IP map's accuracy is largely based on the available points, and because the number of points available for a given subnet is proportional to the traffic that it carries, the IP map's accuracy will be very high where its resolutions affect the most traffic. What are the different factors that can affect the accuracy of traces?

The individual is using an internet Proxy, this is a setting of the ISP which can sometimes show a wrong location. Often proxy server IP's have predictable patterns and in many situations, it can be possible to detect proxies and still return a close location. The individual is using a dial-up internet connection over a long-distance telephone call. For example if they are in Paris and they make a phone call to New York to access the internet you will see an American location for them. For those situations the phone call may need to be traced to find out where the dial up call originated. Luckily, this is expensive for the individual, so it is rare that this happens. The ISP of the individual has a country-wide dialup number. Some ISPs can allow users access from anywhere in the country by routing the connection over the telephone network first - so the location will give you the correct country still, but cannot be accurate about the individuals town or city. Firewalls are sometimes used by individuals or by their ISP or company, and these can cause the location to be less accurate. You still usually get the right country and state, but sometimes the town location could be off. The ISP of the individual is using a brand-new set of IP addresses. When successful ISPs expand and get new numbers assigned to them, it takes a few days to few weeks for the location of these new numbers to get properly recorded, so you can get completely wrong locations when this happens - this is generally rare. Here are some reasons why it might be correct, even though you were not expecting it: Someone is spying on your email - At times complaints about email location inaccuracy turn out to be caused by the email of the sender or recipient being intercepted by someone else. The individual might not be where you think they are - This is why send as much details as you can to see if this is the case. You can generally know the name of their ISP as well as the language their PC is using, or the operating system of their pc and many other details and if these appear to match the location you got, it is probably correct. Searching is a cooperative process and including any information such as the reason why you are doing the search, any suspects you may have in mind and what are the circumstances of the search will help enhance relevancy of the results. Email, IP, IM or username searches do not access any private service provider records. Searching is a cooperative process and the more information you provide the higher the chances of relevant results. Any additional information can be included in the Additional Information or Comments field.

[5minsforfighting]

I use firefox with the tor button installed running a proxity ... whenever im on sites that i dont want my real ip on it ...

its pretty easy just hit the tor button when you want to remain annoymous and have proity running in the background ... it slows it down a little but its worth the extra security ...