Is is possible to have the seti folks trace the IP address of one of my machines?

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Admiral Marith Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 25 Credit: 18,201,239 RAC: 15,036	Message 498884 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 2:47:51 UTC
	Wife's laptop was stolen and It sent results yesterday. If I can find out what IP address it used, the cops might be able to retireve it ____________
	ID: 498884 ·

Michael Buckingham Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4413 Credit: 2,663,817 RAC: 0	Message 498890 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 3:08:21 UTC - in response to Message 498884.
	Wife's laptop was stolen and It sent results yesterday. If I can find out what IP address it used, the cops might be able to retireve it Sent your request to admins. ____________ http://www.mikesbawx.org/photo/
	ID: 498890 ·

John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 22343 Credit: 439,209 RAC: 396	Message 498891 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 3:09:35 UTC - in response to Message 498884.
	Wife's laptop was stolen and It sent results yesterday. If I can find out what IP address it used, the cops might be able to retireve it Assuming that it was sending back results to your account, you should be able to do this yourself (you can see the information, but other users cannot). Go to your account, click on view computers. Click on the specific computer. Click on view IP address (near the top). I hope that you get the machine back. ____________ BOINC WIKI
	ID: 498891 ·

Admiral Marith Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 25 Credit: 18,201,239 RAC: 15,036	Message 498900 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 3:38:18 UTC - in response to Message 498891.
	Wife's laptop was stolen and It sent results yesterday. If I can find out what IP address it used, the cops might be able to retireve it Assuming that it was sending back results to your account, you should be able to do this yourself (you can see the information, but other users cannot). Go to your account, click on view computers. Click on the specific computer. Click on view IP address (near the top). I hope that you get the machine back. I hope we get it back too. Here's what it showed me for that machine: IP address 192.168.0.2 (same the last 272 times) External IP address 207.224.73.215 How does one find out what ISP this is? ____________
	ID: 498900 ·

Johnney Guinness Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 2944 Credit: 2,305,966 RAC: 330	Message 498916 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 4:33:31 UTC Last modified: 7 Jan 2007, 4:36:21 UTC
	Admiral, go to this site and type in the address number into the search. All the detail is there. how to complain and e-mail address's also http://www.arin.net/whois/ Remember, this will only tell you who the service provider is. But they know the home address of the ip number ____________
	ID: 498916 ·

Dark Angel Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Aug 01 Posts: 432 Credit: 2,673,754 RAC: 0	Message 498923 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 5:05:09 UTC - in response to Message 498900.
	Wife's laptop was stolen and It sent results yesterday. If I can find out what IP address it used, the cops might be able to retireve it Assuming that it was sending back results to your account, you should be able to do this yourself (you can see the information, but other users cannot). Go to your account, click on view computers. Click on the specific computer. Click on view IP address (near the top). I hope that you get the machine back. I hope we get it back too. Here's what it showed me for that machine: IP address 192.168.0.2 (same the last 272 times) External IP address 207.224.73.215 How does one find out what ISP this is? 207.224.73.215 traced to: 207-224-73-215.mpls.qwest.net Looks like it's in Minnesota with Qwest Communications as the ISP ____________
	ID: 498923 ·

Misfit Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21680 Credit: 2,443,662 RAC: 0	Message 498925 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 5:10:32 UTC - in response to Message 498923.
	207.224.73.215 traced to: 207-224-73-215.mpls.qwest.net My whois shows Qwest in Denver Colorado. ____________
	ID: 498925 ·

Johnney Guinness Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 2944 Credit: 2,305,966 RAC: 330	Message 498942 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 5:54:44 UTC - in response to Message 498925. Last modified: 7 Jan 2007, 5:57:09 UTC
	207.224.73.215 traced to: 207-224-73-215.mpls.qwest.net My whois shows Qwest in Denver Colorado. Yep, Denver. But you could be living thousands of miles away and using them as your service provider. But your culprit probally lives there. Local phone company. Its exciting, we need the Admiral to keep us up to date with the cops ____________
	ID: 498942 ·

Michael Buckingham Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4413 Credit: 2,663,817 RAC: 0	Message 498943 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 5:59:14 UTC - in response to Message 498900.
	Wife's laptop was stolen and It sent results yesterday. If I can find out what IP address it used, the cops might be able to retireve it Assuming that it was sending back results to your account, you should be able to do this yourself (you can see the information, but other users cannot). Go to your account, click on view computers. Click on the specific computer. Click on view IP address (near the top). I hope that you get the machine back. I hope we get it back too. Here's what it showed me for that machine: IP address 192.168.0.2 (same the last 272 times) External IP address 207.224.73.215 How does one find out what ISP this is? call the cops man....how long ago was it stolen? ____________ http://www.mikesbawx.org/photo/
	ID: 498943 ·

Johnney Guinness Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 2944 Credit: 2,305,966 RAC: 330	Message 498945 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 6:03:41 UTC
	Front page headline in the newspapers and on the tv Americas Dumbest Criminals seti@home foiled the Laptop theif No kidding, it could be a great publicity stunt to raise public awareness of this project. At just the right time to help with the fund raiseing. ____________
	ID: 498945 ·

Eric Korpela Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 952 Credit: 5,681,995 RAC: 6,391	Message 498946 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 6:17:30 UTC - in response to Message 498884.
	Wife's laptop was stolen and It sent results yesterday. If I can find out what IP address it used, the cops might be able to retireve it Wow, it sounds like you guys did this without me. It's not the first time that SETI@home was used to track a stolen laptop. If you have the aprroximate time of the last contact (or if you give me the host ID number), I can look in the logs to see if there is any more information. But beyond the IP address, which you already have, there's probably not much in there. Eric ____________
	ID: 498946 ·

Michael Buckingham Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4413 Credit: 2,663,817 RAC: 0	Message 498948 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 6:30:53 UTC - in response to Message 498945.
	Front page headline in the newspapers and on the tv Americas Dumbest Criminals seti@home foiled the Laptop theif No kidding, it could be a great publicity stunt to raise public awareness of this project. At just the right time to help with the fund raiseing. I am interested to see how this turns out... ____________ http://www.mikesbawx.org/photo/
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Johnney Guinness Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 2944 Credit: 2,305,966 RAC: 330	Message 498953 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 6:43:21 UTC - in response to Message 498948.
	Front page headline in the newspapers and on the tv Americas Dumbest Criminals seti@home foiled the Laptop theif No kidding, it could be a great publicity stunt to raise public awareness of this project. At just the right time to help with the fund raiseing. I am interested to see how this turns out... Me too Michael. If they get the thief i'll be contacting Irish and British newspapers and TV aswell to see if they are interested in the story. I would love to see this project get a boost. It would be realy good publicity. Never know, I might pick up a member or 2 for my team out of it! ____________
	ID: 498953 ·

Toby Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Oct 00 Posts: 1001 Credit: 5,536,461 RAC: 0	Message 498980 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 9:14:32 UTC
	Yeah, the address in the whois lookup will be whatever address was registered by the entity that owns the IP - probably their corporate headquarters. But a reverse DNS lookup yields this hostname: 207-224-73-215.mpls.qwest.net which is presumably a subscriber in Minneapolis as Dark Angel pointed out. So you are in Ireland and your laptop is in Minnesota? It gets around! Good luck! ____________ A member of The Knights Who Say NI! For rankings, history graphs and more, check out: My BOINC stats site
	ID: 498980 ·

Kinguni Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Feb 00 Posts: 239 Credit: 9,042,562 RAC: 138	Message 498996 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 11:08:14 UTC - in response to Message 498980. Last modified: 7 Jan 2007, 11:20:15 UTC
	I'm following this too. We had a team member a couple of years back that got his laptop back the same way, with the cops tracing the IP returned by his SETI client running hidden as a service. Edit: Same member got a client's PC back the same way with BOINC after an employee "misplaced" it. ____________ Join Team Starfire BOINC Chat
	ID: 498996 ·

Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 15969 Credit: 625,413 RAC: 239	Message 499058 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 14:31:26 UTC Last modified: 7 Jan 2007, 14:32:20 UTC
	1. use these phone numbers (below) and anybody that has the time - start calling . . . (i am calling to 'track' this) 2. try using this: ID Serve note: whoever has the computer is 'obviously' off-line @ this time 08:50 AM EST (US) 207.224.73.215:80 207-224-73-215.mpls.qwest.net 204.147.80.81 (qwest.net) Qwest Communications International Inc. 1801 California St. Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 303 . 992 . 1400 Fax: 303 . 992 . 1724 Toll Free: 800 . 899 . 7780 Key People @ QWEST - Chairman and CEO - Richard C. (Dick) Notebaert, Vice Chairman and CFO - Oren G. Shaffer, EVP Operations - Barry K. Allen > collects your name, address, telephone number, billing and payment information, and e-mail address > Contact Qwest? For questions about our privacy policies, please e-mail us at privacy@Qwest.com QWEST Residential Customers - 800 . 244 . 1111 Business Customers - 800 . 603 . 6000 Qwest DSLÂ® (with Qwest.net as ISP) - 888 . 777 . 9569 Qwest DSL (with other ISP) - 800 . 247 . 7285 Qwest DSL Proâ„¢ (with any ISP) - 800 . 903 . 5003 ActiontecÂ® Wireless modem - 888 . 436 . 0657 > 24 hours, seven days a week let's see what we can do . . .
	ID: 499058 ·

paul Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Jul 01 Posts: 42 Credit: 21,990,542 RAC: 1,214	Message 499114 - Posted: 7 Jan 2007, 16:15:59 UTC - in response to Message 498996.
	I'm following this too. We had a team member a couple of years back that got his laptop back the same way, with the cops tracing the IP returned by his SETI client running hidden as a service. Edit: Same member got a client's PC back the same way with BOINC after an employee "misplaced" it. Also, in both instances, Scott had given the information to the investigating officers, who quickly used the IP address to track down the suspect. Just give your investigating officer a call, they'll be thrilled to solve one so easily. ____________ Team Starfire World BOINC IRC- irc//irc.teamstarfire.net:6667/team_starfire
	ID: 499114 ·

Beethoven Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0	Message 499629 - Posted: 8 Jan 2007, 22:08:25 UTC Last modified: 8 Jan 2007, 22:14:29 UTC
	My VisualRoute tool also shows that the actual trace route ends in Minneapolis. QWest's administrative office is at 1801 California Street in Denver, Colorado, though. That may explain Misfit's Denver Whois finding. I think the person in possession is in the St. Paul - Minneapolis twin cities area. And yes, that IS a long way from Ireland, which makes me think: Maybe the thief sold it on eBay and shipped it? It's a possible lead. Maybe the police could contact eBay and see if anyone recently sold a laptop from a seller in Ireland to a purchaser in Minneapolis-St.Paul's? These two email addresses may be helpful for you, or for the police: http://abuse@qwest.net http://ipadmin@qwest.com Good Luck! :) ____________
	ID: 499629 ·

Chip Long Send message Joined: 2 Aug 00 Posts: 445 Credit: 503,693 RAC: 0	Message 499758 - Posted: 9 Jan 2007, 1:52:50 UTC - in response to Message 499629.
	And yes, that IS a long way from Ireland, which makes me think: Maybe the thief sold it on eBay and shipped it? It's a possible lead. Maybe the police could contact eBay and see if anyone recently sold a laptop from a seller in Ireland to a purchaser in Minneapolis-St.Paul's? The OP has not said they are from Ireland... WADR...
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Johnney Guinness Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 06 Posts: 2944 Credit: 2,305,966 RAC: 330	Message 499804 - Posted: 9 Jan 2007, 3:31:13 UTC - in response to Message 499629. Last modified: 9 Jan 2007, 3:32:53 UTC
	My VisualRoute tool also shows that the actual trace route ends in Minneapolis. QWest's administrative office is at 1801 California Street in Denver, Colorado, though. That may explain Misfit's Denver Whois finding. I think the person in possession is in the St. Paul - Minneapolis twin cities area. And yes, that IS a long way from Ireland, which makes me think: Maybe the thief sold it on eBay and shipped it? It's a possible lead. Maybe the police could contact eBay and see if anyone recently sold a laptop from a seller in Ireland to a purchaser in Minneapolis-St.Paul's? These two email addresses may be helpful for you, or for the police: http://abuse@qwest.net http://ipadmin@qwest.com Good Luck! :) Hang on a second, i'm from Ireland, but i did'nt fly over and nick this guys lap top. Read the thread again from the start. Admiral Marith, is the guy who has this issue. And he's an american. I'm only doing some commenting on it, maby to help him get it back. ME, inocent until proven guilty. Ever the airlines will back me up to say that i have not been doing any flying lately. And i'm on the same rubbish computer for yonks. The conclusion to this thread will come from "Admiral Marith". Does anyone know how we can contact him to find out if he got it back. That's the deal clincher here. ____________
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