Mailing List Archive: How to get the IP of a logged user ?

How to get the IP of a logged user ?

May 22, 2003, 1:34 PM

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Hello,

My problem is :

Daniel C Boyer... you know, this "*relatively* unknown" US painter.
There had been a lot of discussions on en:wki to admit "him" as an article.

The same problem exists on fr: with the same Daniel C Boyer (DCB).

This afternoon, an anonym IP made 2 contributions, adding the DCB's
birth date in the ephemerids and details on the DCB entry.

Then, 30 seconds later, the known DCB user made 2 little (minuscule)
contributions, I think to say "you see, I'm not here just to make my
advertising, I make contributions".

I feel this is unfair ! and I wanted to check from where (traceroute)
these contributions were made.

here is the end of the traceroute on the IP 141.219.44.92

12 dcr1-loopback.Chicago.cw.net (208.172.2.99) 166.949 ms 166.918 ms
179.923 ms
13 bpr2-so-0-0-0.ChicagoEquinix.cw.net (208.175.10.98) 167.948 ms
163.850 ms 166.953 ms
14 208.174.224.74 (208.174.224.74) 177.897 ms 174.949 ms 176.934 ms
15 atm4-0x2.mtu2.mich.net (198.108.23.30) 197.952 ms 187.859 ms
229.941 ms
16 207.75.40.2 (207.75.40.2) 191.956 ms 187.922 ms 192.943 ms
17 patpc4.lib.mtu.edu (141.219.44.92) 225.956 ms 197.867 ms 187.942 ms

You know, there are not a lot of contributions from Chicago on fr: ;-)

So, my question is: How to retrieve the IP address...

merci / thanks / danke / gracias

Re: How to get the IP of a logged user ? [ In reply to ]

cunctator at kband

May 22, 2003, 1:43 PM

Post #2 of 3 (163 views)

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On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 16:34, alvaro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My problem is :
>
> Daniel C Boyer... you know, this "*relatively* unknown" US painter.
> There had been a lot of discussions on en:wki to admit "him" as an article.
>
> The same problem exists on fr: with the same Daniel C Boyer (DCB).
>
> This afternoon, an anonym IP made 2 contributions, adding the DCB's
> birth date in the ephemerids and details on the DCB entry.
>
> Then, 30 seconds later, the known DCB user made 2 little (minuscule)
> contributions, I think to say "you see, I'm not here just to make my
> advertising, I make contributions".
>
> I feel this is unfair ! and I wanted to check from where (traceroute)
> these contributions were made.
>
I really don't see what your problem is. It's not like we're about to
run out of space. There's no need to harass Boyer.

Finally, wikitech-l@wikipedia.org is not the appropriate place to
discuss trying to stalk other users.

Re: How to get the IP of a logged user ? [ In reply to ]

jwales at bomis

May 23, 2003, 3:14 AM

Post #3 of 3 (163 views)

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alvaro wrote:
> Daniel C Boyer... you know, this "*relatively* unknown" US painter.
> There had been a lot of discussions on en:wki to admit "him" as an article.

I don't see the problem. It does seem a bit tacky for him to have
written an entry on himself, and I wouldn't want to encourage the
practice generally, but it doesn't seem worth worrying about very
much.