How To Know Mobile IP Address
As I’ve discussed from my previous entry, knowing IP address is important especially on using mobile application intended for sharing files like Raccoon mobsite (mobile web server) and Comobi. Both these mobile applications need internet and/or GPRS in able to have connections to other party.
I don’t want to sound complicated, I am using a mobile application called IPviewer to know my IP address. This is an easy and reliable mobile application for me, tried and tested on my symbian phone. Just make a connection using built in browser, Opera, Opera Mini, fget or any mobile applications you know for Internet/GPRS connection. Open IPviewer application without closing connection, at the bottom of the page, you will now see your IP as shown in the image.
A disconnected connection when reconnected means another IP address. So, when using Raccoon or Comobi, refresh IPviewer to get the new mobile IP address.
What Is Your IP Address?
Many times from my past articles that I mentioned about IP address without discussing briefly what it is. To advanced usage of mobile phones, knowing one’s IP address is indeed important in able to use mobile application intended for sharing files like Raccoon and Comobi.
IP stands for Internet Protocol, is a unique address that certain electronic devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard. In laymans terms, it is sort of like a thumbmark of current connection, the location and other information of an IP address can be traced.
When I started blogging at wordpress.com, I stumbled on a blog that has a widget of current visitor’s flag. As a newbie that time, I was really fascinated on how that works and flattered seeing my flag on other blogs. It took me time to figure that out.
There’s also an instance that a spammer once accused me of deleting her comments which I didn’t approved for the reason of malicious, not related comments and pretending to be different persons but have the same IP address. Understanding IP address is important for this situation.
Upon digging deeply on IP address, I found out that there are many possibilities on manipulating IP address. I stumbled on a website and learned interesting things from their articles and tools. I’ve tried checking my ip with these reliable tools.
- IP Location, Map and Details – If you want to know the location of a certain IP address and some information, you may enter the IP address and find it here.
- Email Source IP Address – This tool displays the estimated location, an IP address of an email.
- IP Traceroute – This tool displays the geographical location of an IP address.
- Visual Traceroute – This tool displays the mapped graphical location of a traceroute from the server to the requested IP address.
- DNSbl Check – This tool may help you check if your IP address is listed with nearly 100 DNS based anti-spam databases.
- IP to Hostname Lookup – This tool displays the hostname of an IP address.
- Hostname to IP Lookup – This tool displays the IP address of a hostname. I’ve tried www.ebooktechie.com and it display my IP address.
- Advanced Proxy Check – This tool can help you check if information is exposed if you are using proxy server.
