Boro

iTrader: (1)

123.456.789.012 for eg.

Are the first set of digits 123.456, do they denote the geographical area of the computer being used and can i find out the area, using that part of the IP Address or the whole IP Address?

ozzy

IIRC there are 3 regional areas of administering IP addressing - ARIN, RIPE NCC and APNIC. Not sure how the groups of addresses are dished out to each reason and whether this could be used to determine what part of the world an IP address comes from.

You can perform a lookup of an IP address to determine who has registered it. That would identify an ISP, but not necessarily the area. You need the whole address to identify a single host. Partial address would identify only a range of hosts on a particular network.

BTW, only numbers 0 - 255 are allowed in an IP Address.

Stefan

BuRR

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question549.htm

wheelie_sti

Use a program called "visual route" simply enter the full ip address into it and it tracks to the city where the IP address is and even identifies each hop along the way on the world map. Most useful for tracking attempted hacks on a firewall.

Hope it helps

wheelie_sti

ChrisB

Visual Route is somewhat hit and miss for location.

boomer

Open up a "DOS box" (or Start->Run->"CMD") and type "tracert 123.456.789.876" or whatever.

This will display, on a hop-by-hop basis, the route to the entered IP address. You will see your own ISPs routers, the links across the world, and the remote ISPs routers, down to the individual host.

Sometimes ISPs block the ICMP packets used for this tracking, but you will get a fairly good idea of what is out there.

Here's mine for Scoobynet (the "du" is for dial-up)...

Cheers,

mb

Traceroute to: bbs.scoobynet.co.uk
IP address: [217.79.127.30]

1: [194.159.180.33] war1-du-33.access.demon.net
( 157 ms) ! ( 184 ms) ! ( 188 ms) !
2: [194.159.180.1] war1-service-1v2-15.router.demon.net
( 188 ms) ! ( 166 ms) ! ( 141 ms) !
3: [194.159.180.69] war1-backbone-1-176.router.demon.net
( 158 ms) ! ( 185 ms) ! ( 159 ms) !
4: [194.159.7.5] anchor-backbone-11.router.demon.net
( 189 ms) ! ( 186 ms) ! ( 159 ms) !
5: [194.70.98.49] anchor-inside-1-g3-0-0-s296.router.demon.net
( 188 ms) ! ( 187 ms) ! ( 158 ms) !
6: [194.70.98.6] anchor-border-1-g1-0-0.router.demon.net
( 188 ms) ! ( 186 ms) ! ( 159 ms) !
7: [195.66.224.38] linx.core1.tchx.lon.uk.griffin.com
( 188 ms) ! ( 176 ms) ! ( 158 ms) !
8: [217.79.96.130] atm1-0.core1.srbp.dby.uk.griffin.com
( 184 ms) ! ( 164 ms) ! ( 168 ms) !
9: [217.79.127.30] bbs.scoobynet.co.uk
( 177 ms) !E ( 156 ms) !E ( 189 ms) !E
Stopped: destination reached