Tech Question

[saffyre_dragon]

How can I check where an IP address is located?

I had an anonymous poster today. I think I know who it is, but I'd like a little confirmation.

EDIT: Okay, just confirmed it was from the area I thought it was from. Thank you!

Comments

[torquemada]

Two potentially useful tools are nslookup (which will lookup the domain name associated with the IP address, if any) and traceroute/tracert/mtr (which will plot the network path to that IP). There are online versions of both nslookup and traceroute. I don't have one I'd recommend, since I can do either from a Linux command line, but you can probably find one or more of each that would be useful.

[saffyre_dragon]

You and your silly Linux. All flexible and stuff. Got it figured out now, thank you.

[darkmane]

Here is one way, it's not super accurate, it basically gets you down to the city. Beyond that requires help from the ISP usually.

[saffyre_dragon]

Pretty much all I needed was the city. Well, actually all I really needed was the state. Thank you for the help!