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Tell country from IP?

pickarooney · 2007-04-11 17:24:37

How can one tell the country of origin of an IP address or how do websites know to which version of their site to redirect you?

11-04-2007 5:24pm

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pickarooney

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How can one tell the country of origin of an IP address or how do websites know to which version of their site to redirect you?

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#2 11-04-2007 5:27pm

spurious

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IPs are alloted in blocks to providers - most of them are geographically based.
It's why sometimes a UTV Internet subscriber will come up as the UK.

This sort of page lets you lookup an IP.

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#3 11-04-2007 5:31pm

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Something like Whatismyipaddress?

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#4 11-04-2007 7:42pm

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I find this tool to be very effective,
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

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#5 12-04-2007 9:16pm

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Thanks for the replies

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#6 13-04-2007 10:28pm

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www.dnsstuff.com also!

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#7 14-04-2007 8:51pm

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http://www.ip-adress.com/ is excellent

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