Once again my apologies if my search fu is not worthy enough. I did do some searchs on this both in the forums and with wiki and google but unfortunately could not find something that my answered my query sufficiently.

That and I'm at work on a Thursday night working at Noise Control so yeah the phones may go crazy soon (especially at 3.30am bar closure time :()

This forum has been a font of knowledge that I feel pretty confident asking you guys this. I'm a fairly approachable guy so if you tell me I'm an idoit for doing it this way I don't mind :) . Just be sure to tell me the correct way I should be doing it :)

I make a lot of posts on the World of Warcraft forums analysing peoples traceroutes.

Part of what I do is I look at the actual geographical location for each hop and ask myself is that a reasonable latency considering the distnace ?

To do this I've just been passing it through a whois search at domain tools.com but I'm concerned that may not be the most accurate way of judging it. That is I look at address it's registered under.

Maybe I should be taking the host name it resolves to and pumping that through the whois would that show the physical location of the IP address ? How about airport codes are they that reliable for judging a IP address location ??

For example this IP address here :  

152.63.30.2

I seem to get confliction reports of where it's geographically located :(

Are there more accurate ways of finding out the geographical location of an ip address. For example I found out about this www.geoiptool.com would this tell me a more accurate geolocation ?


Help please .... show me  how to do it please :)