In fact, tracing an IP
address back to its location is a lot simpler than what many people imagine.
There exists many online tools using which you can accomplish this job. One of
my favorite site is IP2Location.com.
Just go to http://www.ip2location.com/demo.aspx and enter the IP address that you want
to trace in the dialog box and click on “Find Location”‘. With just a click of
a button you can find the following information for any given IP address:
·
Country in which the IP is located
·
City to which the IP address belongs to
·
Latitude/Longitude of the IP’s location
·
Zip
Code of the region to
which the IP belongs to
·
Time
Zone associated with
the IP
·
Name
of the ISP to which the IP
address belong to
·
Internet
Speed of the computer
associated with the IP
·
Weather
Station associated with
the region of the IP
·
Domain
name associated with
the IP address
A sample snapshot of
the results from ip2location.com is given below:
You can also visually
trace route any IP address back to its location. For this, just
visit http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert/ and enter the IP you want to trace in
the dialog box and hit the “Proxy Trace” button. Wait for few seconds and the
visual trace route tool displays the path Internet packets traverse to reach a
specified destination. Hope this helps. Please pass you comments.
