You can also use 'dig' and a few other *nix commands to find out the owner
of an IP address even if it doesn't resolve to a name. I would have no idea
how to do this in a web app, other than with Perl, or something. Anyway,
like you said, that doesn't always do you much good. Granted that you have
a pretty good chance right now of at least getting the country right, but
what happens one day when the address belongs to AOL and AOL spans 20
countries? whois is only going to give you Virginia.
Todd Ashworth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Freitag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 4:06 PM
Subject: RE: IP Tracing
> There isn't a sure fire way to do this. An IP address might not always
> resolve to a DNS name. There are some CFX tags in the tag gallery that
will
> resolve an IP address to a host name. Figuring out how to find the
> geographic location is another issue, that isn't always very accurate.
One
> way to do it, is use the top level domain .com, .ca, .us, .uk, etc. You
> could build a database relating the top level domain to a Country .ca ->
> Canada
> .com -> US
> this isn't always very accurate because people outside the US can buy .com
> domains, etc.
>
> You could also use the whois database, and the find out where the get the
> address of the company from that database, this might be more accurate,
but
> it requires more processing.
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Pete Freitag
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott P. Heffron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 1:42 PM
> To: Cf-Talk
> Subject: IP Tracing
>
>
> Is there a way by getting the requestors IP Address. Find out which
country
> or area, they are from. Part of the application we are working on is
asking
> for this.
>
> TIA,
> Scott Heffron
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