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Topic: Using other IP lookup sites ?

Posted By: Pilsener
Subject: Using other IP lookup sites ?
Date Posted: 26 January 2012 at 8:05pm

Is there any way to use another IP lookup site than the Webwiz one when I click on the lookup icon ?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 9:14am

Sorry there is not a way to change this.

Is there any reason why you do not want to use the Web Wiz IP Information Tool?

Are there features missing to the IP Information?

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Posted By: Pilsener
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 11:13am

The Webwiz one is giving some strange results.
I noticed that many adresses were traced to the same county here in Norway, without giving any further info about location.
Using http://whatismyipaddress.com" rel="nofollow - http://whatismyipaddress.com gave me more detailed results about location for the same addresses.

It seems to me that Webwiz is tracing the addresses to some distribution point in that area, but is unable to get past it.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 12:51pm

The provider that we buy the IP database from does update the IP addresses monthly.

There are only a small number of GeoIP database companies and all can be slightly hit and miss due to IP changes. For example I tried the link you gave and all the UK IP's I try, including our own IP ranges, it can only give the country and not the city or region, so is less accurate than the GeoIP database that we are using for the IP's that I tried.

If you could send me a PM with the affected IP's with their locations I will refer it to our GeoIP database provider and ask that they look in to updating them.