Folks, I need some help in finding out the physical location of where a hotmail message was sent. I don't mean to sound like a psycho, but I have a feeling that my significant other is cheating when she goes away on business. If I could find a simple city/state information on where the hotmail message is originating from, that would be golden. I put my message header format to "advanced". Here's a copy of the header of the email (I changed her name and address to protect her). I really appreciate anyone's help in this matter. By the way, she's definitely using dial up internet access. Here it is: Received: from 141.158.104.211 by pv1fd.pav1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:25:43 GMT X-Originating-IP: [141.158.104.211] From: "Jane Doe" xxxxxx@hotmail.com To: dchandra16@hotmail.com Subject: Re: what's up Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:25:43 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Stn-Info: Then the message text starts

Your wish is my command ! All you need to know is here.... http://www.computing.net/security/wwwboard/forum/1802.html Response Number 7

Where does she go on business? Out of state? Country? Its not considered cheating if shes out of the area code when it happens. Mike your 2 funny..:)

Mr C - unfortunately you cannot determine anything geographically about a Hotmail account holder. As a web based email system, they can, and probably do, check this email from anywhere in the world. "Concentrate on being a good person, and nobody else will come between you... Unless of course, the other person is another girl, then you have had it, cuz girls know what girls like............" Could be fun though, eh?

Sorry to hear that, when there isn't any trust, it's not worth to being together. I was a victim too. I choosen to leave my love one. below is the info I can help ya to find. The location of this IP --> 141.158.104.211 is from LA Registrant: Verizon Trademark Services, LLC (PUKUGQVUMD) 1095 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 US Domain Name: VERIZON.NET Administrative Contact: Andersen, Christian (CAH535) christian.andersen@VERIZON.COM Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. 600 Hidden Ridge Drive Mailcode HQE03H01 Irving, TX 75038 US 972.718.7621 972.718.3946 Technical Contact: Hostmaster (HO9610-ORG) sysmgr@VERIZON.COM Verizon Online 5525 MacArthur Ste 320 Irving, TX 75038 US 800-927-3000 Fax- -- Record expires on 06-Jul-2003. Record created on 06-Jul-1999. Database last updated on 24-Oct-2002 20:06:44 EDT. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.BELLATLANTIC.NET 199.45.32.40 NS2.BELLATLANTIC.NET 199.45.32.41

Your question is confusing. You want to know the physical location of where a Hotmail message was sent, yet you want the city/state where the message is sent from? Sorry, but those are two different things. You can get the e-mail address the message was sent to, but you will not have ANY idea where the recipient is when receiving that e-mail. Unless of course, he/she replies. In which case you have more info to work with. btw...How did you get your wife's hotmail account password so that you could view the header of a message she sent to someone else? You need to supply more information (details) about this supposed e-mail your wife sent. JD, your response is very sexist, and I take offense to it.

The IP address you listed is here: Search results for: 141.158.104.211 Verizon Internet Services VIS-141-149 (NET-141-149-0-0-1) 141.149.0.0 - 141.158.255.255 Verizon Internet Services VZ-DSLDIAL-GNBGPA-9 (NET-141-158-90-0-1) 141.158.90.0 - 141.158.127.255 # ARIN Whois database, last updated 2002-10-24 19:05 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's Whois database. Search results for: ! NET-141-158-90-0-1 CustName: Verizon Internet Services Address: 1880 Campus Commons Drive Reston VA 20191 Country: US RegDate: 2002-03-21 Updated: 2002-03-21 NetRange: 141.158.90.0 - 141.158.127.255 CIDR: 141.158.90.0/23, 141.158.92.0/22, 141.158.96.0/19 NetName: VZ-DSLDIAL-GNBGPA-9 NetHandle: NET-141-158-90-0-1 Parent: NET-141-149-0-0-1 NetType: Reassigned Comment: RegDate: 2002-03-21 Updated: 2002-03-21 # ARIN Whois database, last updated 2002-10-24 19:05 What victim posted is the domain name registration info, not the location of the IP address. Verizon provides internet services all over the country so you can't tell anything from that. The domain name registration info is essentially useless for Mr. C's problem. The IP address is the address of the computer that the email was sent from. So it is useless also. Now if the wife gets an email back from someone,then you *might* be able to tell something. Or you might not. When the block of IP addresses is owned by a huge network like Verizon, UUNET or others there is no clue as to where it's located geographically. If the IP address belongs to a small local network then you might be able to tell the geographical area. MrC, to look up an IP address, go here: http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html Lay off folks, this is a tech help forum not a marriage counseling forum ;)