SubscribeMy IP Address Lookup
Mon Oct 2, 2006 5:59:44 pm by DustinFiled under General
Ray has informed me of a service which will tell you the geographical location of an IP address. It is hostip.info. I thought it was interesting and useful. You can do things like:
http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=12.215.42.19UShttp://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=12.215.42.19Country: UNITED STATES (US)City: Sugar Grove, ILhttp://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=12.215.42.19&position=trueCountry: UNITED STATES (US)City: Sugar Grove, ILLatitude: 41.7696Longitude: -88.4588
There is also a Firefox plugin. I thought this was going to be useful until I noticed that only 50% of those located are located correctly, according to a survey they have on their site. Although this may be true, it may also be true that this could help in finding virsuses and the such. It appears they are also working on a Thunderbird extension.
Mon Oct 2, 2006 9:49:32 pm
Firefox plugin requires Java runtime, lolers.
Tue Oct 3, 2006 2:12:39 am
Yeah, its nifty.
Tue Oct 3, 2006 12:09:33 pm
At first it seemed pretty cool, but then the lack of accuracy became quite clear. Apparently my server is located in California. Crazy!
Wed Oct 4, 2006 6:59:58 am
I’m starting to think that nifty is just about all it is.
Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:13:04 pm
Yeah, there’s only so much you can achieve this way. I think they just use the listed address for the owners of given IP address blocks.