anyone know of a decent site where i can lookup where an ip address is?
e.g. if i have ip address x.x.x.x.x and i want to know if that ip is in london or scotland.
i've been going around google and what the sites i have found are saying is that ip x is located in location london when it shud be roughly 250 miles away from there. thanks p.s. must be free
you can use http://whois.domaintools.com/ for example http://whois.domaintools.com/stackoverflow.com and for ip information for example http://whois.domaintools.com/69.59.196.211
I use this one all the time. It allows 20 lookups per day. http://www.ip2location.com/
As far as I can tell, it usually gets it right, though there are uncertainties for many IP addresses due to the way ISPs manage them.
hostip.info is a free (community-based) solution that works well and has reasonable accuracy. It also has an API for easy integration, or you can download their complete database if you need quick or heavy access.