I find that all the dns, traceroute, whois stuff
is done nicely through something like
http://samspade.org/
or
http://www.dnsstuff.com/
Athough a lot of whois services seem to block
samspade these days. dnsstuff seems to do
something a little smarter, in that they redirect
you to the correct whois server.
That said, traceroute is typically more useful
for the geographical location.
BTW, plugging "geographical location ip address"
into google comes up with a lot of web pages to do
just that.
The one I tried didn't work though :-)
Matt
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