[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by jribz

Thanks for the great hack, one question though, would it be very difficult to use geotargeting, or tracking, to automatically determine the physical location of the IP address, sort of like a IP or DNS reversal? I had a situation on my boards where we were banning allot of people, it took a while before we realized they were all from India and this would have made the process much much quicker.

This will tell the Host name - look @ image.

cpe-xx.xxx.xx.xx.socal.res.rr.com

S. California - socal
Roadrunner - rr

You can always do "tracert" on the IP to find where it is.

C:\Documents and Settings\Zman>tracert yahoo.com

Tracing route to yahoo.com [66.94.234.13]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
2 6 ms 11 ms 8 ms xx.xxx.xx.xx
3 7 ms 9 ms 7 ms GIG2-2.CNPKCA2-RTR2.socal.rr.com [24.24.192.73]

4 9 ms 9 ms 11 ms SRP1-1.CHSWCA1-GSR1.socal.rr.com [24.24.192.158]

5 9 ms 10 ms 10 ms SO-0-0-1.TUSTCA1-RTR1.socal.rr.com [24.24.192.5]

6 15 ms 17 ms 13 ms so-0-1-2.lsanca1-rtr1.socal.rr.com [66.75.161.49
]
7 11 ms 12 ms 12 ms so-4-2-0-0.gar2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.78.202
.25]
8 14 ms 11 ms 14 ms ae-1-52.bbr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.68.102.33
]
9 30 ms 24 ms 23 ms as-2-0.bbr2.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.128.157]
10 26 ms 23 ms 23 ms ge-10-0.ipcolo3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.123.11
]
11 25 ms 23 ms 25 ms unknown.Level3.net [64.152.69.30]
12 23 ms 37 ms 23 ms UNKNOWN-66-218-82-219.yahoo.com [66.218.82.219]

13 24 ms 32 ms 21 ms w2.rc.vip.scd.yahoo.com [66.94.234.13]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Zman>