On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 08:46:13PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 9/12/19 6:57 pm, Reco wrote: > > ll it takes is to look at APNIC record with whois. > > Shows your ISP and a city it's operating at. > > I could dig deeper, but I'm lazy. > Thanks Andrei > > > I got 3 addresses > 2 of them about 3Km away from me (1 in a public park) > the 3rd, about 4,500Km away from me, but referring specifically to my ISP, > must be head office. > > and 3 references to my ISP > 2 by a very old name > 1 current name (for about 5 years), but referring to that address 4,500Km away > > Somewhere I found this curl method.
Why would you need an Web API if you have whois (/32 mask is chosen deliberately to avoid possible privacy concerns)? $ whois 2402:b801::/32 % [whois.apnic.net] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html ... inet6num: 2402:b801::/32 netname: IINET-AU-20120806 descr: iiNet Limited ... irt: IRT-IINET-AU address: iiNet Limited address: Level 9, 250 St Georges Tce address: Perth ... Does not show *your* location per se, of course. Hence the "lazy" remark. > curl http://api.db-ip.com/v2/free/2402:b801:2859:: > { > "ipAddress": "2402:b801:2859::", > "continentCode": "OC", > "continentName": "Oceania", > "countryCode": "AU", > "countryName": "Australia", > "stateProvCode": "VIC", > "stateProv": "Victoria", > "city": "Melbourne" > > > Only problem is there is no such continent. How can I believe in its accuracy? And that's GEOIP, a totally different beast. Somewhat accurate for IPv4, wildly inaccurate for IPv6. Reco
