[ale] Can I identify the country of origin?

[Denny Chambers]

If your really looking for somethink like this, check out this URL ( 
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space ). This is the break 
down of the IPv4 address space from IANA. While it will not give you 
pinpoint accuracy, it will let you know who/where the ip address are 
comming from. This is also helpful when setting up a firewall. I use 
this to block all IP's that are still shown as reserverd by IANA. Thes 
IP's should not be on the internet.

Denny

Dow Hurst wrote:

> Could you identify the IP and do a reverse traceroute, then develop a 
> map of the Internet from your data? Even if you only got the ISP 
> router IP as a the last hop, that would still be a reasonable 
> datapoint. You'd need to qualify the requests by sorting your web 
> requests so that only normal good guy requests were worked on. You 
> could ignore the attack requests. No point in inviting attention by 
> the bad guys. This scheme is a lot of work for a perl script but very 
> doable. Combine that with the other suggestions referencing the 
> browser language and you could develop a best guess database. I think 
> there is a project that has already tried to map the Internet 
> geographically. I don't know whether it is current or not.
> Dow
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> Jim Lynch wrote:
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>> I know it is an off topic question, but this group represents some of
>> the best minds in town. My boss asked me if I could identify the
>> country of origin of systems connecting to our web page. I think he
>> wants to automate the language displayed. I told him I wasn't aware of
>> anything, but decided I'd ask a larger audience before I gave him an
>> absolute no. I know I can do a name lookup and sometimes figure out the
>> country, but that won't always work.
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim.
>>
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