Re: location info

Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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