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Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:40:11 +010 |
Hello !
When I'm surfing, in several cases, the site shows my place (Liège).
Where does the site takes that information? From Opera, or from my IP
address?
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Laurent Jumet - Point de Chat, Liège, BELGIUM
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Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:50:34 +010 |
Hello Roland !
"Roland Reck" <rolandNOSPAMreck@gmx.de> wrote:
>> When I'm surfing, in several cases, the site shows my place (Liège).
>> Where does the site takes that information? From Opera, or from my IP
>> address?
> From your IP address.
...thanks.
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Laurent Jumet - Point de Chat, Liège, BELGIUM
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Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:09:01 +020 |
Am 05.04.2008 um 11:40 Uhr schrieb Laurent Jumet:
> When I'm surfing, in several cases, the site shows my place (Liège).
> Where does the site takes that information? From Opera, or from my IP
> address?
From your IP address.
There are several sever scripts that can do a traceroute and map it to a
location. It works because the standard dial-in node of your provider
normaly doesn't change its location and the locations are well known, the
rest is a wild guess.
BTW: The standard scripts stop at 100km away from my location because my
provider blocks traceroutes going farther than to his central nodes :D
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Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:19:22 +010 |
On Sat 05 Apr 2008 11:09:01, Roland Reck <rolandNOSPAMreck@gmx.de>
wrote:
> Am 05.04.2008 um 11:40 Uhr schrieb Laurent Jumet:
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>> When I'm surfing, in several cases, the site shows my place
>> (Liège). Where does the site takes that information? From Opera,
>> or from my IP address?
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> From your IP address.
>
> There are several sever scripts that can do a traceroute and map
> it to a location. It works because the standard dial-in node of
> your provider normaly doesn't change its location and the
> locations are well known, the rest is a wild guess.
>
> BTW: The standard scripts stop at 100km away from my location
> because my provider blocks traceroutes going farther than to his
> central nodes :D
>
>
Ah, that explains it then because I too was surprised the data was
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