knowram Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 So I have this cool trace route program where you can put in an ip address and it will show you the path taken to get to that ip and information about who owns that ip. My question is dose anyone know how this works and if it is possible to figure that information out with php or some other language? It would be extremely useful to be able to tell where the person using my site is located. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 It would be a pretty unreliable way of finding out where your users are located. For instance, sometimes I log into my remote server (located in the US) to surf the web. I live in Australia, but according to your idea, I would show up as being in the US.Anyway... I would assume that this traceroute program you have must have a database of ips and locations of all the major internet routers / switches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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