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RE: Geography of an IP Address
From: "Parker, Gary W" <Gary.W.Parker () usa xerox com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 06:24:33 -0400
VisualRoute is a cute tool that does the traceroute and plots it on a worldmap at the same time. They have a live demo available on their webpage: http://www.visualroute.com/. Again, it's only as close as the data recorded for each ISP and any known for their individual pieces of equipment, but it certainly helps you establish which continent you're dealing with, and can identify (with clickable links) the intermediate ISPs for hops along the way. It lets you do a WHOIS query on both endpoints, and a lot of the hops along the way. Neat tool. -GWP -----Original Message----- From: Scott Blake [mailto:blake () homeport org] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 9:25 PM To: firewall-wizards () nfr net Subject: RE: Geography of an IP Address Not precisely, no, but you can take a reasonable guess at the neighborhood by looking at the output from traceroute. Most ISPs name their routers something that at least vaguely approximates their actual physical location. Of course, the ISP almost certainly knows the precise physical location of the IP address, or at least the billing contact. If you're engaged in forensics, you can solicit the cooperation of the ISP, especially if the cops are involved. s ------ Scott Blake blake () homeport org
-----Original Message----- From: owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net [mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net]On Behalf Of board operator Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 5:27 PM To: hackers () egroups com Cc: alert () iss net; firewall-wizards () nfr net; dc-stuff () merde dis org Subject: Geography of an IP Address 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? TIA, Jay
Current thread:
- Re: Geography of an IP Address, (continued)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address iwchick (Oct 18)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Joseph S D Yao (Oct 16)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Linus Corin (Oct 16)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Scott Blake (Oct 16)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Larry Chin (Oct 16)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Joe Ippolito (Oct 16)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Carric Dooley (Oct 16)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Sheldrake, Kevin (Oct 16)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Joseph S D Yao (Oct 18)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address LeGrow, Matt (Oct 16)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Parker, Gary W (Oct 18)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Karl Greenwood (Oct 18)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Sheldrake, Kevin (Oct 19)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Rob Horne (Oct 20)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Joseph S D Yao (Oct 21)