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- Cowboy5995, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8When I entered 127.0.0.1 it told me to go screw my self.
- roeboedog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6it's showing the location of your DSL CO your public ip is there not at your home. It shows mine about 74 miles away from me that is just little off.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7it's just an ip route tracer.. what's so special about this.. nothing.
- arbyn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7anybody else holding out on flaming this like i am?
- lagnut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Click on "map it" after Latitude: xxxxxxx
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Exactly. How long will the internet at large continue to be amazed by using data from one application in another? I wonder if it was like this when the bicycle was invented.
"Whoa, check it out you can ride it to the market!"
2 months later: "News flash! He rode it to the tailor!"
2 months later: "Did you know you can ride a bicycle to school?"
A traceroute is one of the oldest networking tools we have. Performing a traceroute and sending the data to any web page, java applet, flash movie, python script, ruby application, javascript, C++ program, or writing it on a chalkboard with ketchup... none of it is news. If this had some practical application like using the locational data to reduce ping times, that would be news. But this is no more than the most trivial programmatic tinkering, the kind of thing you get a kick out of when you hit chapter 2 of your "Intro to Programming" book. - snorcup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3IP tracers have been around for a long, long time.
Anyone heard of tracert?
There is also a slew of graphical tracert applications out there, geotrace comes to mind.
This is not new, this is not magic, and this is not digg worthy.
Further more, for a news site that caters to 'technically savy' folks, I would have expected a different reaction.
Instead you 13 year old wanna be 31337 H4X0R's are amazed by it, or complain that it just resolves the address of your service provider.
Yet another digg to push me over to slashdot for decent news and commentary. - Zukunft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3About 30 miles off, but I guess that's still decent.
- partisan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah... i guess you just go to the center of the town it lists and yell "which one of you called me teh ghey??!!!11LOL112"
- vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2mine didnt
- gluek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2heh, Moscow isn't in America!
- IHaveIssues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Got me dead on. Time for proxies!
- benkenobi00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It worked for me. Well, it got the NSW, Australia part right.
- Dajestar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This site can't even tell where Amsterdam is....no digg
- mrbender, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2WOW I am living in the Imperial Palace with the Japanese Royal Family so sweet ! NO DIGG
- GuiBou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13000 km off target !
Vancouver...I'm near Quebec city
(TELUS) - immure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Got me to within 3.8 miles of my house.. and I live in the UK, so that's pretty close
- InvisionUK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, it definitely seems to think the place I live in, is named after a mobile phone company called "O2". Either that, or owned by them.
Somehow, I doubt that's right.. although reception with 02 mobiles has been going up recently... - osxmusic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thing had absolutely no idea.
- TheJenks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Placed me in Australia. Im in London.
- Ralphy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm in Virginia, It says i'm in Utah....
- geekster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm in Kuala Lumpur, but it says that I'm in Petaling Jaya. Probably pinpointing my exchange server.
- pkkid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I coded a tool like this a while back that records and logs all the visitors to your site onto a world map.
http://pkwebstudio.com/apps/worldplot/
I used geodirection and hostip.info to get the IP to Lat/Lon information.
http://www.geobytes.com/GeoDirection.htm
http://www.hostip.info/
After about 6 months use, I found geodirection to be aboue 85% accurate and hostip.info to be about 60% accurate. - Koldark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow! Within about a mile of where I work. Pretty accurate. I will have to try this at home.
- Massif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These things have been around for years...
- sovereign3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm in Japan... also way off for me.
- LNahid2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, only a 5 minute drive from here for me. But IP location programs used to tell me it was around 50km. I guess there's a CO closer to me now.
- noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It pinpointed the location that google considers to be the center of my area code.
It knew that this computer's ISP is telcove ( www.telcove.com )
Hooray for T3. :| - Jeffool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just realized that my IP has me in Tacoma, Wa. I'm in Georgia. Eh, only 2285 miles off...
- rebrad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wasn't this on a couple weeks ago? I used to live in Herndon VA but no longer and for some reason this says that I'm there. I wouldn't bet the bank on this.
- emrais, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Rubbish. Not even close. Wrong continent and everything.
- QBranch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1391 Miles off target, same state, though...
- smithco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Way off for me. Not even the right continent.
- STKD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Way off. Even as far as I can find myself, my ISP isn't located or linked to the location it gave me. Sigh. No diggage.
- 1ivewire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I remember being fascinated by Neotrace and how cool it was to trace people back to their addresses. I'm glad the Internet really doesn't work that way though this site is only a few miles off for me.
- eN1X, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its about 20 minutes off mark for me
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>South Australian Centre for Manufacturing - Silico
WTF? I'm with Internode. Well... - OropheR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No digg
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that's why does girls always know where i'm from in those stupid ads. They got my location down
- SniperX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It should be pointed out that this is nothing out of the ordinary. It's just pulling the information about the company that owns your public IP address space.
You can get the same information running any common IP info tool. Running a graphical trace route will also show the location (NeoTrace).
Example:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ipall.ch?domain=72.14.207.99 - Bonzodog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol...the info was right, it got my ISP's head office in Louth, Ireland, but it showed Louth, SCOTLAND on the google map. I am 250 miles from my ISP.
- roach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lame!
- b_timmins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes it's not smart enough to throw foreign searches correctly into the Google Maps page.
It got me more or less correctly as
City: Bintulu
State: 11
Country: MY
If it did a search for Bintulu MY instead of Bintulu 11 then it would have been fine
Another "American" style piece of geographic logic. - nogg3r5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wrong for me, said I'm in Birmingham, where as I'm nearer London and oxford!
- secretrk1313, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1only a mile off for me
- bobslaede, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It kinda works...
Except Google Maps doesn't know where Fredericia, Denmark is... It thinks its in the US, which is not really correct...
This may confuse "dumb" people... the US is NOT the only country in the world... - dlaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It got the city right, but it put me clear across town.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, usually these are way off for me. This was like +/- 1/4 mile from me.
- shinaku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1100 or so miles off for me - that's quite a lot in British terms ;)
- noof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I got a search for "Stockholm 26":
City: Stockholm
State: 26
Country: SE
what's 26? :) -
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