--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of Alex Stanley > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:31 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: IPs (was which guru best?) > > Just out of curiosity, I did a reverse IP lookup and found this: > > 80.111.68.171 resolves to > "cm-80.111.68.171.chello.no" > Top Level Domain: "chello.no" > Country IP Address: AUSTRIA > > Does this mean that Nabby is in Austria and not Norway?
None of my IP lookup tools return any results with Austria on Nabby's IP, so I guessed that you probably used a website to look it up. I did a Google search on your exact words 'reverse IP lookup' and the first result is http://remote.12dt.com/. I ran Nabby's IP through it, and sure enough, it returned: 80.111.68.171 resolves to "cm-80.111.68.171.chello.no" Top Level Domain: "chello.no" Country IP Address: AUSTRIA If you research Chello, you'll discover it is a very large broadband provider, operating in many different countries, including Austria. However, my hunch is that it's highly unlikely that Chello gives Norwegian IP addresses to its users in Austria. But, why does that site say it's in Austria? Well, a WHOIS lookup on Nabby's IP directs me to RIPE.NET's WHOIS server: http://www.ripe.net/whois Plug in Nabby's IP, and the answer is clear: http://www.db.ripe.net/whois?form_type=simple&full_query_string=&searchtext=80.111.68.171&do_search=Search inetnum: 80.108.0.0 - 80.111.255.255 org: ORG-CBG1-RIPE netname: AT-TELEKABEL-20010719 descr: Chello Broadband GmbH descr: Provider Local Registry country: AT admin-c: HMCB1-RIPE tech-c: HMCB1-RIPE status: ALLOCATED PA "status:" definitions mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-lower: CHELLO-MNT mnt-lower: PRIO-MNT mnt-routes: AS6830-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered organisation: ORG-CBG1-RIPE org-name: Chello Broadband GmbH org-type: LIR address: UPC Austria GmbH Erlachgasse 116 1100 Vienna Austria phone: +43 1 96068 5000 fax-no: +43 1 96068 5666 e-mail: hostmaster [...@] chello.at The RIPE database lists the company as being based in Austria. And, notice that the email contact has a chello.at email address. The country code for Austria is .at, and I betcha that Chello's Austrian users receive Austrian IP address. I'm willing to bet that if Chello gave Nabby a .no IP address, it means he's actually in Norway.
