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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ?
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:17:15
Message-Id: 20110809181538.GA6003@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ? by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> [11-08-08 20:56]:
2 > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > Hi,
5 > >
6 > > is there a tool, which can display the place on earth,
7 > > where is given IP-address is located ? Vidalia has this
8 > > abilitity for sites of the tor network, but for other
9 > > sites/IP-addresses???
10 >
11 > dev-libs/geoip is a library to provide this functionality to your
12 > programs. I think this is what most people use.
13 >
14 > net-misc/whois will look up the owner of an IP netblock. You can read
15 > the address and make an educated guess.
16 >
17 > net-analyzer/traceroute will trace the path to the IP, usually hops
18 > near the destination have geographic names that you can infer the
19 > location from.
20 >
21
22 Hi all,
23
24 thanks for all the input ! :)
25
26 In the meantime I found this:
27
28 http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_lokalisieren/<ip-address>
29
30 where "<ip-aaddress>" is for example "192.168.192.168". ;)
31
32 Further links on that page leads to a satelite-map marked
33 with the location of the IP...plus a unknown offset of some
34 meters/miles...
35
36 Best regards,
37 mcc

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Where is this IP/site ? Ralph Slooten <axllent@×××××.com>