Find out the Country (Location) of the person you are chatting with

If you are chatting with a person on Yahooconnections. Once he accepts and the file transfer
Messenger, do you know how to find thestarts, open command prompt and type the
Location of the person you are chatting with?command netstat –n, this would give active
You can use a simple command and someTCP Connections on each Port.
googling to find out the location of the person youC:\Documents and Settings\User
are chatting with.Name>netstat –n
When ever you use the Internet, in fact anyActive Connections
network, the communication should happen  Proto  Local Address          Foreign
between 2 Computers which are uniquelyAddress        State
identified by 2 IP Address. But in most cases1.   TCP    10.0.0.9:1101         
these IP Address might not be unique for your10.0.0.191:1025      ESTABLISHED
Computer but unique for your ISP. Simply2.   TCP    10.0.0.59:1881       
speaking the router at your ISP is connected to10.0.0.184:1372      ESTABLISHED
the Internet. The connection between your3.   TCP    10.0.0.59:2301       
computer and your ISP is a local network. Your208.88.182.2:80      ESTABLISHED
ISP Routers acts as the middle man is making the4.   TCP    10.0.0.59:2302       
Internet requests on your behalf and getting the208.88.182.3:80      ESTABLISHED
Internet results back to your machine. So you can5.   TCP    10.0.0.59:2303       
in most cases trace back an internet connection208.88.182.3:80      ESTABLISHED
to the ISP, i.e. to the Country, State, City andC:\Documents and Settings\User Name>
ISP.The out put of netstat –n command would be
When ever you chat with a person using Yahoosomething similar to the above. From the above
Messenger your messages are sent to a Yahoolist you need to filter the Foreign Address filed to
Server and the Server relays the messages toget the IP Address of the Person chatting with
the person you the chatting with. So if you findyou. When you are trying this close all Internet
the IP Address in such a scenario you will find theApplications like Messengers and File Sharing
IP Address of the Server but not of the personapplication and close all browser windows. Then
who is chatting with you. Yahoo Messenger usesyou would have very few results and you can
P2p Technology when you transfer a file fromeasily filter the IP Addresses.
your system to the other persons system. SoYou can use the Wiki link to find more about the
when you find out the IP Address of theNetstat command.
Destination Computer when you do a Yahoo FileYou can use the Wiki link to filter the foreign
Transfer you can actually find out the IP of theaddress based on port numbers.
other person and hence the location.Once you find the IP Address you can go a site
When you are trying to find out the Location oflike  to find who is of that IP Address. Whois
the person chatting with you, you should makebasically gives details like the address of
him accept a file transfer request, in this way aregistration, company name and contact details.
connection would be established between yourTo find your own IP Address you can use the
computer and his computer. Remember to send acommand ipconfig /all.
file which is at least 3-4 MB in size so that youIf you need any further clarification please get
have some time to capture the activeback to me.