Sniffing AOL IP address

[Greg12]

Someone has gotten on my friends screen name and hijacked it.

Is their a way, when this signs on (they have AOL, not AIM) to sniff their IP and find out who stole her sn?

[hbutz]

AOL uses a bank of proxy servers to dole out Internet content. Anyone who uses AOL will appear to have many simultaneous IP's, on a rotating and psudo-random fashion. Anyone using broadband (cable, DSL, etc) to access AOL instead of dial-up will have their real IP address masked by the proxy servers as well. Due to the way AOL accesses the Internet, it's impossible to track an AOL user via their IP address.

Assuming you could find the IP address of the AOL user, which you can't, there is no way to associate a name with that number without the DHCP server logs, which you don't have and cannot get.

Best thing to do is call AOL and ask them for a password reset, having them 'snail-mail' the password to you.

[nfl2k2]

i'm not sure about aim, but with yahoo all you have to do is a simple "netstat -n", which displays what ip addresses are using what ports. from there you can easily obtain that users ip address, as long as they have replied in one of your conversations.

tell her to get a new username.

[SteveDVD]

yea you can use netstat on AIM, but you must direct connect to the person...then do that... good luck