RE: Geography of an IP Address

["Linus Corin" <lcorin () netgravity co uk>]

Look further down please.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net
> [mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net]On Behalf Of Alex
> Noordergraaf
> Sent: 13 October 1999 15:02
> To: board operator
> Cc: hackers () egroups com; alert () iss net; firewall-wizards () nfr net;
> dc-stuff () merde dis org
> Subject: Re: Geography of an IP Address
>
>
> board operator wrote:
> > Hello alI...
> >
> > I was wondering if there's any way to trace the geography
> (actual city or
> > state, province etc.) of a person's static IP address. I know that most
> > have dynamic (changing) IP's but if I were to somehow obtain
> their static
> > IP, could I then begin an amateur trace to their physical location?
>
> Try:
>
>       http://cello.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/slamm/ip2ll

I would say that this thing is rather unreliable. I tried out a few IP
addresses throughout the world, many of them could not be found at all, one
address in Stockholm was reported to be in Amsterdam.

When typing in a hostname, it autmatically reported the host to be located
in the country for the particular top domain. ex:

this-domain-does-not-exist.non-existent-subdomain.uk
London
another-non-existent-domain.se
Stockholm

It seemed to work fine for .COM domains in US, for example it could find the
correct city of our company web server.

I would rather go to http://www.ripe.int/db/whois.html, or the internic for
non-european IP adresses and find it manually.

> -Alex
>
> > TIA,
> >
> > Jay
>
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-- Linus

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