Re^2: Getting longitude and latitude from an IP address

What makes you think IP addresses have a fixed location? And what makes you think the "location" of the IP address has any relation to the location of the user?

One of my former employers had a central and mandatory proxy at the headquarter, so each and every user accessing the internet appeared to be located at the headquarter, even if s(he) was several hundred km away.

At my current employer, I have to live with a partly broken proxy that I sometimes bypass using an SSH tunnel to a different computer. Whenever I do so, my "location" according to my current IP address jumps into a completely different state more than 30 km away, while I do not move a single millimeter.

Things become even more funny when you use a mobile computer with an UMTS or GPRS card.

Alexander

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