On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > is there a tool, which can display the place on earth, > where is given IP-address is located ? Vidalia has this > abilitity for sites of the tor network, but for other > sites/IP-addresses???
dev-libs/geoip is a library to provide this functionality to your programs. I think this is what most people use. net-misc/whois will look up the owner of an IP netblock. You can read the address and make an educated guess. net-analyzer/traceroute will trace the path to the IP, usually hops near the destination have geographic names that you can infer the location from.
