I think this was the idea of the Sociable Design chat app (which did reverse DNS w/ XML) ...

Have you seen it?

http://www.sociabledesign.com/wireless.php
http://www.sociabledesign.com/sociableCHAT.php

Its a little tricky to get around NAT .. and when u do you tend to need to do a bit more than grabbing the IP.

What would be nice to see is getting that app done in C so you can stick it in firmware.

- Jon

Rob Kelley wrote:

Hi.  Here's a short idea for an app that's been bugging me for awhile.

FYI for review, sharing, and comments.

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WIFI-BASED POSITION REPORTING
A user submits a simple little form that sends the IP address of the
local network to a system hosting a database of wireless nodes. If the
IP or corresponding FQDN address matches a node in the database, the
system publishes an update that says the user is at that node.



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