[gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?

[gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?

[meino.cramer]

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???

Thank you very much for any help in advance!
Best regards, 
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:37 PM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> 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???

The general term for what you're looking for is "GeoIP" or "Geolocation"

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Geoip

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:wq

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?

[covici]

meino.cramer@gmx.de 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???
> 
> Thank you very much for any help in advance!

I have used maxmind.com for years, I think its $20 for 20000 or some
such.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?

[Stroller]

On 8 August 2011, at 19:51, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>> ...
>> 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.

The version in Portage contains a database that is supposedly accurate to the country level.

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?

[meino.cramer]

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> [11-08-08 20:56]:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> 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/<ip-address>

where "<ip-aaddress>" 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?

[Ralph Slooten]

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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:15 AM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> thanks for all the input ! :)
>
> In the meantime I found this:
>
> http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_lokalisieren/<ip-address>
>
> where "<ip-aaddress>" 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
>

For what it's worth, I wrote one too a few years back on
http://www.axllent.org/projects/webtrace - Probably not as accurate as the
one you posted as it uses the free version of the Geolite City database, but
maybe worth a look ;)

Kind regards,
Ralph

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