Re: location info

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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