| From: | Jason Monk |
| Date: | 17 May 2001 at 17:10:10 |
| Subject: | Re: IP tracing...HELP! |
Hello Alan
On 17-May-01, you wrote:
> hi,
>
>> I`m in s fairly desperate need for tracing an IP address.
>> Any ideas on how to narrow it down to it`s physical
>> location (i.e. country/city)?
>
> well, you can traceroute to find where the nearest servers etc are,
> but that wont give you geographical location (case in point, the
> server may be in a completely different country to the owner of the
> IP)
>
> 'whois' (and tools which use this) is the way to go.
> if you cannot use such a tool, try their URL
>
> http://whois.internic.net/whois.html
>
> alan
Thanks Alan, all sorted now.
Regards
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