On Fri, 24 May 2002, Chris Boget wrote: > Is there a way to back track an IP address to find out where in the > world the user is? I believe it can be done because I've seen several > graphical trace ip utils do this. Perhaps you can do something similar > to get the local TZ?
The graphical traceroutes are far from infallible. In many cases they just plot the address where the organization responsible for the domain or IP block has its IT department. If your site visitor is at a small company, that's fine. For a national or multinational, it's pretty useless - it doesn't help you very much to know that someone's coming from a Cable & Wireless IP. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
