Resolving an IP address with no reverse DNS lookup

[OneOfOne (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by snowyskiesau

There's a website that provides all sorts of IP related information.

The home page as given above should show your own IP address, ISP and physical location. I'd be interested in how accurate it is for you. For me, it correctly gave my suburb.

Yep, got me as Melbourne, I wasn't expecting it would guess Bentleigh

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by snowyskiesau

There's a website that provides all sorts of IP related information.

The home page as given above should show your own IP address, ISP and physical location. I'd be interested in how accurate it is for you. For me, it correctly gave my suburb.

It does not work with firefox 3.0.11 on linux. Something on that page makes firefox loop.

The page works with lynx and gets my location wrong by the about the width of Sydney. The upstream transparent proxy and the traceroute it is probably doing might have something to do with that.

[kustard (Simon)]

If you're a sysadmin or you admin your own website and you find that you get a lot of email spammage coming to your site then you can set up what is called a Honeypot to catch and record spammers and botters.

The way it works is that you generate a file that is referenced in your html code but it is hidden from view. A bot will scour a page for any links and run the hidden file. This file returns data to the honeypot site that contains information (such as the IP of the bot) and is used to then blacklist those IP's. Normal google or search engine spiders are ignored.

The one I use at work and for my own domain is called ProjectHoneyPot and it has caught quite a few spammers hitting the work domains.

[jackyr (Jackyr)]

Hi friends now a days its usefull to know about our ip details so that we could prevent the unwanted spam and other kind of malcious stuff which looks forward to attack us let me illustrate you in some more in detail once my computer was hacked and i was been asked for the ip address i searched through the web i got a site name http://www.ip-details.com/ip-search/ ehich hangs in the web with worthable details we can get our ip and we can test our internet speed to get a try with that...