[ILUG] Irish IP GeoLocation?

Kae Verens kae at webworks.ie
Sun Jan 13 15:37:58 GMT 2008


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Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
>> Also is it possible to identify the town/city people are coming
>> from based on their IP? I'd like to be able to provide a localised
>> web page to say people from Galway or Cork, that is different to
>> the page for people from Dublin.
> 
> That won't work too well, as a lot of the Eircom IPs cover much larger
> areas than might be expected. In Carlow, for example, you get IPs from
> Limerick :)

I'm in monaghan, and the first hop on any traceroute from here is
usually either Eircom's Limerick or Galway BAS.

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