IP grabber for Yahoo

whrzmud

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not sure if this is the right place to ask this or not but does anyone know of a pice of software that i can use to look up the IP address of someone that IM's me on Yahoo or AIM?
 

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Titan
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I'm afraid it doesn't work that way. Everything runs through Yahoo's servers. If you used a piece of software that shows you the IP addresses of who is connected to you (there are many...) it will show you the IP address of the YAHOO server. Person A sends a message that really goes to the yahoo server, the yahoo server forwards the message to you. You see the IP address of the server, not person A. I have no idea how AIM works, it might be different.