[SOLVED] Finding past ip addresses

[JoePofty]

I signed up for an email to make another for some work charts to send to myself. A year later I'm trying to access it again for work and I forgot the password. I have used Microsoft recovery to get it back and now they are asking for the ip address I used to log in which was other a year ago. Is there anyway to find out the ip address on the router through using my mac? Any help would be much appreciated

 

[Lee-m]

Its an odd thing to ask when most peoples addresses are dynamically (randomly) allocated by the isp. Most home users don't have a static ip. If it was accessed from a business then you have a good chance of finding it out, since the ip address is likely static and still the same now.

For your ISP (the one you had a year go) to find it from their records, they would need to know the date and time you last accessed it.

So in short, there isnt a realistic way. Thats what the password recovery ('I have forgotten my password') is for.
Unless I misunderstand the question of course.

 

[COLGeek]

What email service asked for an IP address (from a year ago)? That is highly unusual.