From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QqqrY-0004xk-Fu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:17:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3243521C144; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 18:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 674E921C133 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 18:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Aug 2011 18:15:39 -0000 Received: from p54851B58.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.27.88] by mail.gmx.net (mp016) with SMTP; 09 Aug 2011 20:15:39 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18Ajnx95v0AyvAo/FEcLM1YZTWNtzMe0e4vunaIZA HUhncEQV2ORWWX Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:15:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:15:38 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ? Message-ID: <20110809181538.GA6003@solfire> References: <20110808173753.GB24700@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 707f93d1850123e43114a364ea69215f Paul Hartman [11-08-08 20:56]: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM, wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > is there a tool, which can display the place on earth, > > where is given IP-address is located ? Vidalia has this > > abilitity for sites of the tor network, but for other > > sites/IP-addresses??? > > dev-libs/geoip is a library to provide this functionality to your > programs. I think this is what most people use. > > net-misc/whois will look up the owner of an IP netblock. You can read > the address and make an educated guess. > > net-analyzer/traceroute will trace the path to the IP, usually hops > near the destination have geographic names that you can infer the > location from. > Hi all, thanks for all the input ! :) In the meantime I found this: http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_lokalisieren/ where "" is for example "192.168.192.168". ;) Further links on that page leads to a satelite-map marked with the location of the IP...plus a unknown offset of some meters/miles... Best regards, mcc