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Re: location info
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From: ToddAndMargo via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 05:38:16 -0700
On 5/6/24 04:04, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2024, ToddAndMargo via curl-users wrote:
>
>> What if I want to know this information for a different IP address
>> (which I have extracted from an attack on my firewall log)?
>
> There are services provided that give you information about specific IP
> addresses. You can use WHOIS to find who owns the IP and you try
> services like https://www.iplocation.net/ to ask where the IP might
> reside geographically.
>
> I'm pretty sure all free geolocation services you try with be fairly
> "rough" and even the commercial ones often makes mistakes.
>
> Finally, even if you do get a reasonably certain location for the
> address, the IP you see might be a proxy, a TOR exit, a VPN or another
> victim that the attacker is using as a gateway. So not at all the
> location of the attacker.
>
I am going to make the call from inside a raku (perl6) program.
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 05:38:16 -0700
On 5/6/24 04:04, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2024, ToddAndMargo via curl-users wrote:
>
>> What if I want to know this information for a different IP address
>> (which I have extracted from an attack on my firewall log)?
>
> There are services provided that give you information about specific IP
> addresses. You can use WHOIS to find who owns the IP and you try
> services like https://www.iplocation.net/ to ask where the IP might
> reside geographically.
>
> I'm pretty sure all free geolocation services you try with be fairly
> "rough" and even the commercial ones often makes mistakes.
>
> Finally, even if you do get a reasonably certain location for the
> address, the IP you see might be a proxy, a TOR exit, a VPN or another
> victim that the attacker is using as a gateway. So not at all the
> location of the attacker.
>
I am going to make the call from inside a raku (perl6) program.
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