RE: Geography of an IP Address

From: Parker, Gary W (Gary.W.Parkerat_private)
Date: Mon Oct 18 1999 - 03:24:33 PDT

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    VisualRoute is a cute tool that does the traceroute and plots it on a
worldmap at the same time.  They have a live demo available on their
webpage: http://www.visualroute.com/.  Again, it's only as close as the data
recorded for each ISP and any known for their individual pieces of
equipment, but it certainly helps you establish which continent you're
dealing with, and can identify (with clickable links) the intermediate ISPs
for hops along the way.  It lets you do a WHOIS query on both endpoints, and
a lot of the hops along the way.  Neat tool.

-GWP

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Blake [mailto:blakeat_private]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 9:25 PM
To: firewall-wizardsat_private
Subject: RE: Geography of an IP Address


Not precisely, no, but you can take a reasonable guess at the
neighborhood by looking at the output from traceroute.  Most ISPs name
their routers something that at least vaguely approximates their
actual physical location.  Of course, the ISP almost certainly knows
the precise physical location of the IP address, or at least the
billing contact.  If you're engaged in forensics, you can solicit the
cooperation of the ISP, especially if the cops are involved.

s

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Scott Blake
blakeat_private

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-firewall-wizardsat_private
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 5:27 PM
> To: hackersat_private
> Cc: alertat_private; firewall-wizardsat_private; dc-stuffat_private
> Subject: Geography of an IP Address
>
>
> Hello alI...
>
> I was wondering if there's any way to trace the geography
> (actual city or
> state, province etc.) of a person's static IP address. I
> know that most
> have dynamic (changing) IP's but if I were to somehow
> obtain their static
> IP, could I then begin an amateur trace to their physical location?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jay
>

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