Re: Tracing Threatening Email to an IP Address

["Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff () gmail com>]

You'll need your firewall logs, assuming they log access to web sites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation

On 1 Feb 2007 19:42:34 -0000, ka4731 () aol com <ka4731 () aol com> wrote:
> My friend and I received a threatening email from an anonymous yahoo account.  We believe this may have come from one of my 
> friend's coworkers because the header information was traced back as far as the IP address of the Cisco Pix firewall within my 
> friend's company network.  All emails I receive from my friend have the IP address of his computer within his network.   Why is 
> it that the anonymous email header doesn't tie me to a computer or work station just like my friend but only shows the IP of the 
> firewall?