Get somones IP from MSN

Posted by Jamsi in Windows XP on March 14th, 2006 | 8 responses

So why would you want to find your friends IP address? Not thinking about doing anything illegal are you? Good.

If for any reason you wish to find someones IP address via MSN, you may follow these steps.

1. Open up MSN Messanger and click the tools menu, then select Options
2. Click the connections tab
3. Click the Advanced Settings button
4. Tick the checkbox that says “Save a log of my server connections to help troubleshoot connection problems”
5. The next step is to send your friend a file, video or audio request. By doing this, MSN will write interface information to a log file.
6. The log file is located in your “My Recieved Files” folder and will be called “MsnMsgr.txt”. Open this file up in notepad and look for a line that says “IPv4External-Addrs”. An example is below.


IPv4External-Addrs: 203.111.222.333
IPv4External-Port: 29050
IPv4Internal-Addrs: 192.168.0.10
IPv4Internal-Port: 4050

7. There will be two sections of the logfile with the IPv4External-Addrs line, one will be your IP address details and one will be the recipient address.

And your done!

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8 Responses to “Get somones IP from MSN”

  1. Dave says:
    April 19, 2006 at 5:25 am

    i cant see the any contents like this after i sent a file :IPv4External-Addrs: 203.111.222.333
    IPv4External-Port: 29050
    IPv4Internal-Addrs: 192.168.0.10
    IPv4Internal-Port: 4050

    Any suggestions !??!!?

  2. Jamsi says:
    April 19, 2006 at 12:24 pm

    Did you open the file in something like notepad? If not try that, hit Ctrl F (for find) and type “IPv4External-Addrs”.

    What version of MSN are you using?

  3. Paul says:
    May 12, 2006 at 1:05 am

    I can’t find IPv4External-Addrs either . . . I’m using version 7.0

  4. Paul says:
    May 12, 2006 at 1:18 am

    I can only find IPv4Internal-Adrrs

  5. Cobra says:
    January 7, 2007 at 8:07 am

    I cant see the MsnMsgr.txt file in my recieved files. HELP!

  6. psyop says:
    March 1, 2007 at 9:37 am

    I can’t get it to work either

  7. bhoshan says:
    January 30, 2008 at 3:31 am

    explain this guy how to do it via NETSTAT

  8. henry says:
    November 7, 2008 at 12:15 am

    i managed to get it to work, but i had to skip 6 and 7 and replace them with my own Master Methods©

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