Heh.
'Nother example, which surprised me.
My company is in Calgary, Alberta - for those of you who aren't
familiar with Canadian geography, that's (for all intents and purposes)
just north of Washington State.
This link reported that we're in Halifax, Nova Scotia - northeast of
Maine.
Wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have an ".ab.ca" domain...
Cheers,
- Drew.
Linus Corin wrote:
>
> Look further down please.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex
> > Noordergraaf
> > Sent: 13 October 1999 15:02
> > To: board operator
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Alex Noordergraaf (pager) 888.907.9766
> > Sun PS - Sr Security Architect (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > (voice) 781.270.6328 (fax) 781.270.6310
> > (int url) http://gess.east/alex (ext url) http://itcops.com/~alex
> >
>
> -- Linus
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