Comments on: 88.203.26.13

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:54:01 +0000

Graham’s linked website (http://www.ip-adress.com/ipaddresstolocation/) allows you to map the location of the IP address. My own IP, for example, is located close to the university (bang in the middle of the skateboarding roundabout actually) which makes sense as the uni is my ISP. I live in Balzan, however.

According to the same website the IP address 212.56.130.26 is located somewhere in the San Gwann Industrial Estate.

[Daphne – The location pin-pointed is just a couple of blocks away from the Malta Today office. With geographical coordinates, you can pinpoint it pretty accurately. However, as several people have already pointed out, IP addresses are dynamic, so this kind of information is not reliable. It can be double-checked in other ways to give you a better indication of the likelihood or otherwise of this information being correct. In this case, for example, I happen to have the IP address for emails sent from the Malta Today offices. I looked them up, matched them to the IP address for the latest abusive comment, and the number is the same one. So what we have here is IP address X showing up for Malta Today emails being exactly the same as the IP address for an abusive comment posted on this site, and the geographical coordinates given for that IP address pointing to a location not just roughly in the area of the Malta Today offices, but just a couple of blocks away.]

By: Mario P

Mario P — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:46:59 +0000

Daphne – ask Graham to send his cv to my email address. Thanks. No promises but you never know.

[Daphne – Graham, if you’re reading this, drop me a line at dcg@proximuspr.com and I’ll put you in touch with Mario. Thanks for those coordinates. Paul mapped them and the location he pinpointed is just a couple of blocks away from the Malta Today offices. This could, of course, be an incredible coincidence.]

By: Mario P

Mario P — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:57:57 +0000

@Graham C – wow that’s impressive – with the lat and long you can actually pinpoint the house in Google Earth.

[Daphne – Graham is a real person and a very young one. Maybe you should hire him.]

By: Graham C.

Graham C. — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:18:07 +0000

I’ll try to help a bit:You can run a trace from your own PC.

Open command promt , tracert 88.203.26.13

4 16 ms 17 ms 16 ms 217.22.191.105
5 17 ms 18 ms 18 ms 217.22.191.50
6 19 ms 18 ms 17 ms vl02-north01.csr01.onvol.net [212.56.129.104]
7 17 ms 18 ms 18 ms gi01-ubr6.csr01.onvol.net [212.56.130.26]
I assume the last computer accessed was his computer, [212.56.130.26] .

Using http://www.ip-adress.com/ipaddresstolocation/
IP address: 212.56.130.26
IP country: Malta
IP Address state:
IP Address city: San Gwann
IP latitude: 35.905602
IP longitude: 14.476100
ISP: Melita Cable plc
Organization: Melita Network
Host: gi01-ubr6.csr01.onvol.net

Hope this is of any help and doesn’t just point to some Onvol Server :)

By: Kenneth Cassar

Kenneth Cassar — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:59:50 +0000

@ R: What you say is true, but like I said, all that matters is that the IP points to the user’s PC.

Also, don’t be too hard on people who are only trying to help, even if what they write doesn’t really help. If Daphne didn’t want comments, she would have disabled the comments function.

By: Jomar

Jomar — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:42:21 +0000

I agree with Tony Pace.

Actually Daphne would have been smarter to report him first, then publish his/her IP address in case someone else is receiving this kind of garbage.

[Daphne – Believe me, I know what I’m doing.]

By: Tony Pace

Tony Pace — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:05:50 +0000

Get the police in. Period.
These nuts are dangerous.

By: R

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:54:40 +0000

In relation to my previous post, kindly note that DSLAM had to read CMTS as DSLAMs are used only by adsl providers, whilst the IP address in question is assigned to a Melita cable subscriber. Therefore the IP indicates the region where the CMTS is based but not the subscriber.

By: R

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:41:14 +0000

I dont see why you’re all wasting time with this guy. Most of your theories, such as the presumed location obtained via a simple traceroute are bullocks and in no way do they indicate the true location of the IP address, but rather the DSLAM’s location.

Daphne was quite clear. He’s been warned and should he be dumb enough to persist, well, I’m pretty sure the lads at the cyber crime unit would be having a word with him in a few days.

So please… just let Daphne handle it. I’m sure she could do without our advice.

By: Kenneth Cassar

Kenneth Cassar — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:34:49 +0000

@ amrio:

“The IP address quoted only shows that this guy is sending mail from a PC who’s connected to the Internet via Melita as an ISP, not that he’s a Melita subscriber”.

True, but he can still be traced. If the police question the person who owns the pc, he will have to tell them who was using his pc at that particular time.

“The fact that he has a EuroWeb address means that at home, he has a EuroWeb internet connection”.

I think it has already been established that the email address is probably fake. He is not posting emails. He is posting messages to this blog, which requires an email address (even if it is fake).