text: is there a way to find out how a person is by their ip address.? is there a way to track who a person is via their ip address.  i run an ftp site and am constantly getting people trying to hack in.  i am trying to find out if it is a person themself, your a bot. tried the who is database and most of the ip addresses are coming from overseas, i have had japan and australia a lot though lately. goto www.dnsstuff.com  and you can look them up  tells you there state,town,provider  etc