To get your street address from your IP, they need to have a reason to issue a warrant. The average "joe" cannot have a warrant issued.

The average "joe" cannot. He CAN get the street address for your IP provider itself. However, the IP provider is not going to give your street address out without a warrant.

This is usually not going to be done unless you are involved in child abuse.

Trust me... I have fought a legal battle over an internet stalker who issued death threats to myself. They could not do a thing because it did not involve a child.

BIG WARNING: if you have a website, anyone can "whois" it and get your full name, street address, and phone number. You can, and should, pay for "whois" block. It is too late for me because this was already done to me by a stalker. Please protect yourself. "Whois" block is $10 a year.

Assuming you mean an average user with a dynamic IP from cable or DSL, directly, no. There is no magic way to find someone by their IP address. You can do a trace route and it will lead back to the DHCP server that gave them said address which may/may not be in their general vicinity. But to get any further data then that you have to ask the ISP about it. The ISP keeps logs of which users (MAC address of modem for cable, Authentication info for DSL) have what IP address assigned to them. So if the authorities had traced like CP(child porn) or some other illegal content back to an IP address, they have to ask the ISP who it had been leased to during said time period.

Although, if you get a direct connection to someone on certain networks (mostly only schools, but some cable companies still do it) you can run an NETSTAT -A and find the persons unresolved DNS info, sometimes in that some information about them is encoded such as usernames or email.

It is worth checking the data entered in the RIPE database as if you have a static IP your details may be registered against your block by your ISP.

www.ripe.net

My son went missing in 2004, I know he is somewhere in eastern country, and I have his IP address, i need to find out his street address, please email:ranikaur9@hotmail.com

Are you doing something naughty from there?

Yes they can. However, it is very costly and time consuming. They must first find the ip address (easy), and perform a whois search (usually gets the country and maybe the city) or they go to the isp and find who it is registered to. If you don't want them doing this, use tor of some other proxy.

In short: No. With only your IP address, someone can do very little. They can run a whois on it and find out what city it's registered to (and if you have a large host, this could be miles away from where you live), but that's about it.

In long: Yes. If your government or someone with a LOT of connections has a reason to find out who you are, they can, but only if they have your IP address, the exact date (or dates) that you logged in, and the general time that you logged in, they can find out who you are, but even then there are huge logistical problems. For one, if your ISP assigns multiple people to the same IP address, your pursuer could end up getting a 20-page list, leaving them with more questions than answers. Another issue might be that your ISP may not maintain their logs beyond a certain cutoff point, meaning those investigating you will have to wait until you log in again to determine who you are.

Essentially, the answer to your question is, "Maybe." It depends on numerous factors which are difficult to control and keep track of, which is why the government rarely decides to investigate in this fashion. There are other methods, as have been mentioned before. If someone decides they want to hack into your computer and see if you've got your address on file, it's only a matter of time, even if you've got a firewall.

Yes they can..just by browsing the google earth..Ü

Basically your ip address is like your social once your pc security is compromised then they have access to what ever they want. So just make sure you don't open up any suspicous emails or downloads from unsecure websites because it only takes one time for them to get you.

Yes they can get the local area you are in also they might be able to track what sites you been on then google your user name find out where it is then look for information you have put online to find out where you are