IP trackage?

[Stacks]

Any way to track an IP address through an aim conversation? Had a practical joke (involving my truck and flour) occur a little bit ago. Then received an aim message from the people who did it; however, obviously they had shit disguised. Now I'm pretty certain I know who did it, yet the people I believe who did it are my friends as a practical joke, which I fully intend to repay them for. Yet i do want to be certain before I go fucking with my friends car.

Any idea of how to find out if it was them? I have them added as friends on AIM, so would jsut need to compare the IP address of their regular account to the IP addess of the "crime ridden" account.

Thanks.

[will641]

you could convince them to join ftr, and then a mod could tell you where the ip address is from, amirite?

edit: nvm that wouldnt work.

[Hawk]

I don't know a lot about the IM protocol, but I imagine that your IM client doesn't communicate directly to theirs (which would be necessary for what you want), but rather through a server somewhere.

[flomo]

kill em all
let god sort them out

[swiggidy]

I don't know a lot about the IM protocol, but I imagine that your IM client doesn't communicate directly to theirs (which would be necessary for what you want), but rather through a server somewhere.

You could try to direct connect, then I'm sure there is some way you could do it.