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RE: Geography of an IP Address
From: "LeGrow, Matt" <Matt_LeGrow () NAI com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 08:26:19 -0700
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Its hard to say; you can at least get an idea of exactly who provided that person, or that person's provider's provider, by performing a whois lookup with whois.arin.net on their network IP (i.e. whois -h whois.arin.net 192.168.255.0) From there you can take the issue up with the service provider or the owner of the block. However in most cases without a coordinated effort of monitoring the data multiple times, verifying which routers or networks the data hopped through as it got to you, etc, etc., anything you may divine may actually prove to be unreliable with even a moderately sophisticated attacker masking himself with IP spoofing. Matt LeGrow Network Associates, Inc. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Note: Opinions expressed herein are most certainly NOT that of my employer:-)
-----Original Message----- From: board operator [mailto:bordop () juno com] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 5:27 PM To: hackers () egroups com Cc: alert () iss net; firewall-wizards () nfr net; dc-stuff () merde dis org 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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Current thread:
- Re: Geography of an IP Address, (continued)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Rick Smith (Oct 16)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address iwchick (Oct 18)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Joseph S D Yao (Oct 16)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Linus Corin (Oct 16)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Rick Smith (Oct 16)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Scott Blake (Oct 16)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Larry Chin (Oct 16)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Joe Ippolito (Oct 16)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Carric Dooley (Oct 16)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Sheldrake, Kevin (Oct 16)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Joseph S D Yao (Oct 18)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address LeGrow, Matt (Oct 16)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Parker, Gary W (Oct 18)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Karl Greenwood (Oct 18)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Sheldrake, Kevin (Oct 19)
- RE: Geography of an IP Address Rob Horne (Oct 20)
- Re: Geography of an IP Address Joseph S D Yao (Oct 21)