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rosc2112 · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:39 am Post subject: Announce: IP Location script

Something I whipped up a while ago in about an hour (most of which was just trying to figure out how to set POST queries for geobyte's site. I eventually cheated and just used lynx to see what was being submitted Wink

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This script will take an IP or hostname and look up their location data from anti-online.com or geobytes.com. Keep in mind, both sites impose a quota/usage limit..

If anyone knows of a *good* IP-Locator site that does not impose such a limit, let me know (I looked at quite a few other sites, and they either did not meet my needs, did not accept a hostname ((yes I know I could do the hostname lookup myself first..but I'm lazy Razz

)) or their data was so wildly inaccurate as to be all but useless..) So, the emphasis is on *good* IP-Locator Wink

http://members.dandy.net/~fbn/iplocator.tcl.txt

Also uploaded to archives.

demond · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:44 am Post subject:

why use websites?

do your own whois lookup, it's trivial
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rosc2112 · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:44 am Post subject:

whois is one source that the databases use, but it's not always indicative of actual location. The IP location websites use a few different sources of data (of course, there's no way to obtain "100%" accuracy.)

demond · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject:

right, but continuous use of their resources in an automated fashion will eventually get you banned; these guys sell their stuff and will hardly tolerate leechers

on the other hand, WHOIS servers like that of ARIN and regional authorities don't impose usage limits, while still providing most of the information you get from (demo versions of) commercial "IP locator" services
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rosc2112 · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject:

First of all, I have not abused their websites. I've used the script myself perhaps half dozen times over the last 2 months. Second, if you don't like the script, don't use it.

Alchera · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject:

I use a very well written IP checking script (ipcheck by arfer) that accesses the very free www.dnsstuff.com for varying information.

rosc2112 · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject:

I appreciate that, and thank you for the other script Alchera, I'll check it out. The script I made does handle when the server gives you the "exceeded quota" message, and there's a note in the script about there being a use-quota, so it's up to the script user to restrict the bind for ops only, if they want, or the users will prolly quickly use up the the allowance. I'd thought about using dnstuff's site as well, but being lazy... Smile

If ipcheck does what I need, I'll prolly use that instead (or addition) to mine.

kash2k · Voice Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 18 Location: India

My IP locator scripts gives me an error :--

[07:51] Tcl error [iplocator]: can't read "page": no such variable

Restarted the bot.. Same Issue...Please gimme a simple TCL If you have

rosc2112 · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject:

Post output of .set errorInfo

Edit:
The error you received generally indicates that the script was not able to connect to the website(s), but there should have been an error returned by the script, not just a tcl error about var "page" not being defined. You can add

set page ""

before the lines with

catch {set page

and/or check the content of the $error variable by putting

putcmdlog "error $error"

after the "catch {set page" lines.

I suppose there is an error condition that I'm not aware of and did not test for. But since my copy of the script does not produce the error, I cannot debug it for you without further details.

rosc2112 · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:52 am Post subject:

Just a note about that ipcheck script Alchera mentioned, it does not close the socket when it's finished pulling data. I sent a note to the author about it. Also suggested grabbing whois data for nick lookups, since getchanhost doesn't play well with servers that have +x modes (does not recognize when a user sets mode -x to reveal ip, unless user parts/rejoins)
Other than that it looked pretty good =)

Alchera · Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject:

The script has been fixed and uploaded (link as posted earlier).

As for users that set mode +/-x on those bloated networks; that is the intention: Stop any user from gleaning any information about their host, only an IRCOp can see the real host of a user with mode +x.
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rosc2112 · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject:

I realize that, was just pointing out if I set my mode -x to show my ip, the script ([getchanhost]) does not recognize the change.

Alchera · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:19 pm Post subject:

rosc2112 · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject:

[getchanhost] is an eggdrop command isn't it? I'd already mentioned if the user parts/joins the channel, [getchanhost] then recognizes the fact that the ip is now revealed. Might help if you'd read the posts rather than just criticize.

Alchera · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject:

Even an IRC client doesn't see the updated host when the mode is changed unless the channel is cycled.

It appears to not be an eggdrop problem.

Possibly there is information in the Bugs Archives.
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