Re: how to get the ip address & country of the webpage visitor

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Pardon me, but I suspect that it gives the location of the entity to which the address has been
assigned, not the location of the address.

That might be a question of the accuracy of the database, John.

http://www.ip2location.com ...places me in Miami, instead of in the Dominican Republic.

MaxMind, hostip.info and IP-to-Country place me correctly.



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!> Also, keep in mind that there are proxy servers and other sorts of
network-layer
!> entities which can lie to you about IP addresses. This sort of
information is not reliable.

I thought that, even though the info is not reliable to pinpoint
individual users, it's reliable when
identifying the country of origin, except for those who deliberately spoof
their IP address,
which must be a minuscule portion of the total number of surfers.

Juan, I've always been sceptical about the accuracy of these databases and
services. I'm willing to assume that they're accurate more than 90% of the
time, but no more than that.

My reasoning is simply that although IP addresses happen to be given out by
ISPs who get blocks of addresses (eventually) from National Authorities,
this was meant as a system for distributing addresses, and not as a system
for locating users of those addresses. If it happens to work, great, but
that's not the intent.

For instance, I once worked for a company based in England. Is there a rule
that says that their US offices can't use some of the IP addresses assigned
to the home office? There would be a problem with routers, but what if they
convinced the appropriate ISP/telecom companies to do the appropriate
routing?

John

Sure, an IP-to-Country database gives the location of IP address, not
a user location.

Pardon me, but I suspect that it gives the location of the entity to which the address has been
assigned, not the location of the address.

John




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