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- forrest, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What a load of crap. It didnt even attempt to find my router @ 192.168.1.1
- karamba_kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Depends on how close you live to your ISP. If you connect with a proxy it could be half a world off.
- mspencer712, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can do this on your own if you have a UNIX-like machine or a shell account somewhere.
# whois 11.22.33.44@whois.arin.net
If the IP is in the Americas, this will show you who registered it. For example, my home computer's IP, 209.180.104.204, will give you my actual home address because I registered my static IPs with ARIN.
You might get a response which refers you to RIPE, APNIC, etc. Just do follow-up whois commands at whois.ripe.net or whois.apnic.net, etc.
MUCH better than traceroute. Traceroute alerts your target that you're investigating them, and can be obscured (by having their router block incoming packets with a very low hops-to-live).
(And for the love of God, don't call it "tracer tee", just because the Windows version of the command is named that way. I used to work with this former-oil-company script kiddie loser who called it "tracer tee", and had no idea what I was talking about when I said "trace route". He attempted to mock me for this miscommunication. Kid didn't last one month with the company. :-) ) - Peat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We are currently unable to locate the address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx at this time.
- clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's soooo inaccurate. Using those records will only get you near the city where the company registered the IP. The IP could be assigned to a machine, literally, anywhere.
- silvercold88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is lame, mine was about 250miles off
- EvilBadger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0worthless...says i am in LA. I live in northern california. A whole state off.
- heavyness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0omg...
the ip i typed in...
is in...
my closet! ahhhhhh! - blixel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"now I can find that bitch girlfriend of mine"
hahah - that's funny.
(He thinks he has a girlfriend. Haha) - blixel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We are currently unable to locate the address 127.0.0.1 at this time.
Would have thought that would have been an easy one. - alamak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We are using this IP address locator which is more accurate.
http://www.ip2location.com - bloodyknife987, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0People no longer stalk people.....
The ip's stalk people!
(and their Bitch GFs that dont exist) - tdamore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0All this does is look at the whois information for your netblock. My ISP is headquartered in Texas and I live in CA. It shows me being located in Texas. How this stuff makes the front page I will never know.... :-( I think digg is being killed by it's own popularity.
- Diggg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A few weeks ago I followed Google search links which - of course - ended in a pr0n site.
What totally freaked me was that at the bottom of this site was a detailed street directory map which showed not only my large city but my actual suburb and - probably purely by luck - centred just about on my front doorstep!
How did they do that?
I use a major nation-wide ISP and I can understand getting the city right but to actually show a highly detailed street map of the specific suburb as well based on a semi-dynamic address?
Regretably, I forgot to note either the pr0n or IP locator service sites. - ThrillSeeker78, on 07/17/2008, -0/+0OMG for real. The internet needs to get out of my business. http://www.marketwithartemis.com
- TeChGuRL19, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0way off......cool idea though
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+03 towns off. Still pretty cool though.
- eyepodder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not even close. I'm in Toronto, Canada and it told me Texas.. Only about 1500 miles off..
- ttojesse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg effect!
- Brereton55, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1GUYS HELLO THIS IS A IP LOCATOR THAT IS THE ROOT OF YOUR INTERNET!!!!!!!
- salweem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm only 4 miles away.
- andrew_m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Havn't we seen one of these on digg befor, that one was wrong too, they both said I live in Albuquerque which I don't.
- WolvenSpectre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Was only 250+ miles off for me (as the crow flies) and 8hrs buy highway...
So accurate it is scary - feakbeak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mine was only about 12 miles off, not too bad.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The root of my internet? I didn't know I had my own personal internet. That's good to know.
- freelancer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Same here has me 180 miles away is this the same system the RIAA uses ? Now I know why there so screwed up
- evil-doer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0got my exact town, which is a pretty small town.
ive seen lots of ads that use a geo ip lookup and target me by saying my exact town many times too. havent any of you ever gotten a banner ad saying "find girls in (town here)" and it be your town? - MightyGiant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Couple cities off.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Erm, as has been half-said, all this does it find your ISP's location I think. (By "I think", it could be the last server that your connection is routed though)
It will return the right country if your using a ISP in your county, if your using a big ISP, in somewhere like america, chances are it'll be in your state
But, if your using a forgien proxy/ISP, or for some reason your ISP redirects though other coutnrys, it'll show up wrong :P
Correct me if I'm worng though
And it wont find a local IP, you can't access it (easily) from the internet.. And theres no way it could work out where it is, unless it had a GPS thing in it, even then it wouldn't work, so that wouldn't help..*shuts up*
- Ben - FRAGaLOT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This must be the same database of IP/location lists that a lot of those banner ads with cute girls pics showing that they live local to you. like Adultfriendfinder.com and such.
- FRAGaLOT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tracertoute just lists each hop from you to the destination. DNSlookup/whois is much more vague, especially when you're dealing with Whois servers in another part of the world than north America. should be cool how this works with IPs over seas. Wonder how it would show the IP address of the space station.. assuming it has one.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It didn't even get the state right. Piece of crap.
- pendenga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I found this about 18 months ago and put a welcome message on my website using their "free" (as in beer) script: http://www.geobytes.com/GeoDirection.htm.
It was pretty cool for a while (except the people in Idaho that were getting located in Texas) until their "free" Javascript add-on started redirecting my visitors to random sponsored links. It would just blindly redirect about every 50th visitor to a different site without any warning.
Just a warning to anyone who thought this was cool enough to incorporate into their site. - EnzanBlues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ha, mines about 200 miles off.
- Linuxrocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mine showed California when I'm in Seattle!
- JustinJS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this has been around forever and it dumb ass all hell it was over 120 miles off from my location
- Seaton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It sees you when your sleeping, it knows when you're awake. It knows when you've been bad or good....
- CheeseMan316, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0All it does is find the DNS base for your ISP. Crap.
- pdkrocul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0worked well for me. road runner is registered in Virginia (USA, for our international friends). It was able to narrow me down to my town, which isn't in Virginia. So, it's not just doing a lookup on the whois entry.
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They showed me Oakland, but that's where I used to live...
50 miles off. - PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like this one better as it's based heavily (but not entirely) on user submission: http://www.hostip.info/
- doles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So I did something like this a long time ago (an app and a webbased version) http://www.jamesdolan.com/traceelite.jpg .
The way it works is off information from your ISPs router that is closest to you (or sometimes just you if they are lazy), places like CAIDA have public databases to this information. So for instance often times someone in Florida using Comcast broadband will show up as being in California and so forth depending how the ISPs supply the data. It works pretty good for large corporations though and people using smaller ISPs. - agentspizz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's pretty neat. There's been software out for a long time that will trace back an IP to an actual address and give you a map. I haven't seen a web based interface for it before. Not bad.
- Japonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pretty close from Puerto Rico to Washington DC, few miles off.
- stanleyfresh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah. I'm with the ones that say that it's off. It was off for me, too. Even the ones I found linked here in the comments all point to the same location... BUT, they were close enough. Digg for rough estimate stalker assistance, lol.
- peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+00MG, how does the internet know where I am?
- nightstalkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have known about this for ages. It is way off
- kylef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0right on the money with me.
- fungus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy cow, this is soo LAME!
It is supposed to do a whois lookup on the IP and tell you the address of the owner. One *big* problem though. It says I live in Texas, but I know for a fact that the whois record for my IP lists my *actual* street address exactly. I am the ISP.
If this stupid website can't even do a whois lookup right, I can't believe any of it. -
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