Finding my friends ip....

Alright, my friend keeps asking me to hack into his computer to help him do things, and for that, of course, I look for his ip address. Now, he does ipconfig in cmd and when I ping it, I come up with nothing. When I use a VNC with his ip, I get nothing. He only lives like, 15 minutes from my place, so its shouldn't be a distance problem. I have tried a log file on a website, and it came up the same. I tried an ip lookup thing, and revieved no information. He doesn't have dial-up, so his ip doesn't change. I am 99.992 % sure he isn't running a website (I know this can effect it because I tested it quickly and could connect through my domain name, but couldn't get through) but how do I check his computer (or explain to him h ow to) for a server name? Also, just what the hell is going on with his ip???? I know I've heard something about the beginning of his ip (like it is false and not accepted) but I'm not sure if that was it. the beginning of his ip is 192.168.2.XXX

if ita a 192 ip address its a private ip only for windows an not accesible (as far as im aware) but wen he connects to the internet he should have a completley different ip

Well, as I said, he WAS conencted and not connected during both times we checked, and I did a check with a log file (which I found accurate) so I don't know. I'll get him to try again with some other stuff after, but any ideas how I can get this totally different ip?

Make him go to www.ipchicken.com

Chances are he prob got wrong IP somewhere or sumfing… or maybe hes using a proxy :/

…. trust me- he doesn't even really know what a proxy is…. lol. jk. I know he can't set one up though. What does that site do? Is it the same as whatismyip.org or what?

he's probably behind router (therefor the 192 in ipconfig)

and wtf can I do about that?

I know on some routers you can simply put the 192.x.x.x ip into any web browser which should then open up his router configuration screen, on the majority of routers it will show you his ip. Give it a try..i may be wrong or he might not have a router that shows you.

markuphttp://192.x.x.x

Flaming_figures wrote: and wtf can I do about that?

Make him go to the website and get his external IP address.

192.x.x.x are only accesible (If they're locla configs) by intranet terminals. An ip address like 92.251.56.123 is more close to an external IP address.

And may I suggest, if you lack the knowledge or experience for finding IP addresses, to read up about IP addresses and those specially reserved ones.

make him check his router or gateway=) you will fint it there=) he is running a NAT system. the IP 192.168.1.XXX is a LAN IP inside his own network.