tracing ips

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:38:20PM -0400, dep wrote:
>greets!
>
>i'm endeavoring to determine the whereabouts -- the city would 
>probably be adequate -- of a cable modem with a particular ip 
>address, the equivalent of "whereis" instead of "whois." anybody know 
>how to do this?

The traceroute command will often return useful information.  There's an x-
client that even draws maps, but last time I tried to compile it I think it
required gnome so I couldn't get it to work.

Bill
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