[Geowanking] IP geolocation

[Andrew Turner]

How well does http://hostip.info work for those of you behind proxies?

Andrew

Ruby interface to HostIP.info
http://code.highearthorbit.com/geo/geolocation.rb

On 4/18/06, Tom Longson (nym) <tomlong at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's more frightening is that it told me where I was located and I
> didn't even visit the website.
>
> nym
> http://igargoyle.com/
>
> On 4/18/06, Kevin Elliott <kevin at phunc.com> wrote:
> > Ahh but Mike said that his proxy was NOT passing that information,
> > and was gathering data some other way.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Justin Mason wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > It may not be so complex; many proxies (e.g. squid) will pass on a
> > > header
> > > to the remote HTTP server containing the proxy client's IP address.
> > >
> > >   http://www.linofee.org/~jel/proxy/Squid/rel-notes-1_1.html#x
> > >
> > > --j.
> > >
> > > Mike Liebhold writes:
> > >> Kevin Elliott wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Can you elaborate on what you believe they are doing?
> > >>
> > >> The most plausible answer is that some website that has my address
> > >> that
> > >> I volunteered to recieve a service or to buy something, matched my
> > >> street address to my IP address and sold the data to an IP gelocation
> > >> agregator.
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> Kevin
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> http://local.live.com/
> > >>>>
> > >>>> My home IP address is officially registerd to a proxy server in San
> > >>>> Diego. I'm connected via satellite behind the proxy from a very
> > >>>> remote location in northern California, and yet the findme utility
> > >>>> properly identified my actual geographic position. The satellite
> > >>>> service provider has -not- revealed my actual address. ( I checked
> > >>>> with friends in their net ops center.) The data for local.live.com
> > >>>> was purchased from a commercial ip geolocation service who
> > >>>> determined my actual,  rural location using undisclosed mechanisms.
> > >>>
> > >>>
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Andrew Turner
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