On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:55:44AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:23, Stuart Guthrie @ SLUG wrote:
> > traceroute www.yahoo.com
> >
> > Is this what you meant?
>
> This time to the whole list - still getting used to Evolution!
>
> Not exactly - I am looking to find the actual physical location of the
> server. I just ran traceroute and although I am not sure how to
> completely interpret the output, it doesn't seem to give me that
> information.
Ok, first find the IP address of the server. I use:
host www.example.com
Then run whois on that address, e.g.:
whois 1.2.3.4
And then cross your fingers. That generally tells you which company owns
that range of IP addresses, which is about as good as you're going to get to
finding the physical location of a server. Sometimes traceroute will be
more informative.
-Andrew.
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