Re:IP addresses and their relationships

Hi, You could probably do a reverse whois query, to check who "owns" the IP. If it's an ISP/org, etc the whois output will contain information about the geographical location. regards, -larsw- Original message from: "John Coggeshall" >Okay I'm a bit off topic... but I got into a debate with a friend of mine >and was hoping one of you kind souls in the PHP world had an answer for me. > >Can one tell the general location of a person based solely on their IP >address? If so, how? I'm not sure how myself, But I believe that it should >be possible. > >Any ideas or Yay/Nays? > >John > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- Lars Wilhelmsen <lw@ez.no>, developer @ eZ Systems <www.ez.no>