Identifying An IP Address

Is there some kind of utility that will allow me to look up an IP address..
for example: 72.89.196.14 1...and determine something about where it came
from? Page stats on my website give me an IP address, and I'd like to
get a little better idea where the visitor came from.

Thanks!
Scott

Scott

On 3-Feb-2007, Scott <> wrote:

> Is there some kind of utility that will allow me to look up an IP address..
> for example: 72.89.196.14 1...and determine something about where it came
> from? Page stats on my website give me an IP address, and I'd like to
> get a little better idea where the visitor came from.

Google for -> who is

And find sites that convert the dotted quad to registration
details.
Some numbers relate to national domains, eg uk.com
and you need to find the corresponding national who is
eg Nominet.
There are also some graphical traceroute utilities that
will attempt to resolve the dotted quad to registration
details.
All it involves is a bit of detective work, sometimes
simple, sometimes a bit more complex. Like some ISP's
are registered in one country, from which they draw their
IP address range, but offer services in several countries.

ato_zee@hotmail.com

"Scott" <> wrote in message
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> Is there some kind of utility that will allow me to look up an IP
> address..
> for example: 72.89.196.14 1...and determine something about where it came
> from? Page stats on my website give me an IP address, and I'd like to
> get a little better idea where the visitor came from.
>
> Thanks!
> Scott

Open a CMD prompt window and type

nslookup 72.89.196.14

It comes back to a DHCP pool for Verizon in NY.

John

Hi
There are two type of services that are available free on the Internet.
Whois - You type a domain name (Like, Microsoft.com) and you get the
publicly avail info about the domain.
Reverse Whois - You type an IP numbers and you get info about it.
Your example 72.89.196.14 is an IP own by Verizon. I.e ii is probably an
address of a customer that uses Verizon DSL.
You can use Live search or Google (for whois and reverse whois) to find
pages that provide the service.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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>
> On 3-Feb-2007, Scott <> wrote:
>
>> Is there some kind of utility that will allow me to look up an IP
>> address..
>> for example: 72.89.196.14 1...and determine something about where it came
>> from? Page stats on my website give me an IP address, and I'd like to
>> get a little better idea where the visitor came from.
>
> Google for -> who is
>
> And find sites that convert the dotted quad to registration
> details.
> Some numbers relate to national domains, eg uk.com
> and you need to find the corresponding national who is
> eg Nominet.
> There are also some graphical traceroute utilities that
> will attempt to resolve the dotted quad to registration
> details.
> All it involves is a bit of detective work, sometimes
> simple, sometimes a bit more complex. Like some ISP's
> are registered in one country, from which they draw their
> IP address range, but offer services in several countries.

Jack \(MVP-Networking\).

The following has been quite helpfull for me to identify IP addresses :
www.senderbase.org

Alver