Re: question about ip addresses

Hi, I know what you are talking about... I really dont have an idea how they are doing it but there is a site on the net that whenever I visit tells me my exact locatation (country,city)...they are using another site to do this but heres the address: http://noCme.com hope that helps, Cheers, -Ryan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake Malone" <jake@therussianjudge.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] question about ip addresses > Is it possible to get longitude/latitude or anything like that? I've seen > sites that do that. That would make pretty simple to nail down the location > to a city/state. > > -Jake > > > "John Nichel" <jnichel@by-tor.com> wrote in message > news:3EA6C66B.2020201@by-tor.com... > > Free of charge.... > > > > ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/ripe.db.inetnum.gz > > ftp://ftp.arin.net/other/dump/aup_dump.txt.gz > > ftp://ftp.apnic.net/public/apnic/stats/apnic/ > > ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/ > > > > I could be wrong, but I think things like proxies are taken into > > consideration. This data won't give you the state, but it will give you > > the country to where the IP address is assigned. > > > > > Chester Bullock wrote: > > > > > >> Do you have to buy these lists? If not, where are you obtaining > > >> them? In actuality, it still seems relative. Take AOL for example. > > >> They allocate all sorts of dynamic IP's, but ultimately they would all > > >> resolve to VA since that is where they are located... > > >> > > >> At 11:30 AM 4/23/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >> > > >>> There are four (maybe more) companies out there who basically control > > >>> all the IP's in the world, and they release their database (in text > > >>> format) to the public, so those sites you're speaking of are probably > > >>> going on that information. I'm currently building this in php for my > > >>> company. > > >>> > > >>> Jake Malone wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> (sorry, i originally posted this in the db group)... > > >>>> i've seen sites that can tell you the geographical location of > > >>>> virtually any > > >>>> given ip address. > > >>>> i was wondering, is there some formula for figuring this out? maybe > > >>>> something that could be implemented with php? > > >>>> -jake > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > >>> To unsubscribe, visit: > > >>> http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >>> > > >> > > >> Chester Bullock, chester@tenxible.com > > >> Tenxible Solutions - Tangible, Flexible > > >> Website Hosting, Design and Marketing > > >> http://www.tenxible.com > > >> <http://www.tenxible.com/> > > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >> Do you really own your domain name? Find out > > >> with our free domain name research report. > > >> http://www.tenxible.com <¤jpfôñƒ0¬š€ > > >> mkhttp://www.tenxible.com/> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >