Another Question about IP Atlas mapping

Another Question about IP Atlas mapping

by Tim Allen -
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Hi fellow moodlers,  smile

I have had this problem for quite some time, but haven't posted about it.  The previous thread prompted me to finally raise it here.  It is a different issue so I decided to start a new thread.

WhenI check my site logs the IP address is shown as Milton, Australia! 

Timothy Allen [Daejeon, KR] : (211.177.150.87) is located in Milton, New South Wales (state), Australia. (-35.32, 150.40)

And the same location is shown for all my students:

Jun-Ho Han [, Ko] : (218.238.163.94) is located in Milton, Australia. (-35.32, 150.40)

We are all in Korea, nowhere near Milton Australia. surprise And I am sure our servers are not there either.

Any ideas why this is so?  mixed

Tim.

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Re: Another Question about IP Atlas mapping

by David Delgado -
I think it is not very reliable, since any time it finds an IP it does not know, it reports it being in Amsterdam mixed , for some reason (at least this happens to me). Anyway, it works well for many IP's though (I am not sure wich case happens most).
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Re: Another Question about IP Atlas mapping

by Martin Dougiamas -
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The system we are using for IP -> location is very old and not maintained ... read about it here ...

   http://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/netgeo/

Note this is an inexact science at the best of times:

   http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/cdproceedings/posters/226/

There may be some newer open source alternatives now that were not around at the time when I implemented this stuff ...


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