IP-based Geolocation is mapping of an IP address or MAC address to the real-world geographic location of an Internet connected to a computing device or mobile device. Geolocation involves in mapping IP address to the country, region (city), latitude/longitude, ISP and domain name among other useful things. 2.
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A host address is the IP (Internet Provider) address of a particular computer in the Internet. IP addresses commonly are written in the dotted decimal notation, for example 127.72.12.6, uniquely indentifying each machine in the network.
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You may use 'traceroute' command to find clues to the location of the IP address. The names of the routers through which packets flow from your host to the destination host might hint at the geographical path of the final location.
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You may also use reverse DNS to find out the hostname of the IP address, which might give you some clues. Many ISPs, Corporations and Academic institutions use location as a qualified hostname, although this is not always true. A couple of things to note here: (1) Reverse DNS translation does not always work.
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up vote 1 down vote accepted. If you really only have the guest’s IP address, you generally cannot obtain the host’s IP address. There may be some configurations where it could work, though. From your (PC’s) perspective, the virtual machine is just another network-accessible computer.
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However, there are tools available to help identify approximate location of the host. ARIN Whois database provides a mechanism for finding contact and registration information for IP resources registered with ARIN. You may also use 3rd party websites such as Geobytes or Dnsstuff to lookup the IP address.
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In Linux. Log in to your Linux user account. Use the right mouse button to click on Desktop; then select the option Terminal in the pop-up menu to open a Linux command prompt window. Type the command hostname in the command prompt window and press Enter on the keyboard to display the host name for your computer.
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In Windows. Click Start to get to the Windows Start menu. Right-click on Network and choose Properties in the pop-up menu. Click on View status under the connection details to bring up connection status details. Click the button Details and read the host address given in the line IP address..
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If you have the vsphere client, you can open the console of a guest machine and the title bar will show you which host you are connected to: You can see in the example above that the XA_StreamDev is on a host (with its name faded out). If you ping that host name, you will be able to get its ip address.
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Tweet. This tool will provide you the IP address (or addresses, if applicable) of the hostname (ie www.yahoo.com) that you enter below.
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Click Start to get to the Windows Start menu. Right-click on Network and choose Properties in the pop-up menu. Click on View status under the connection details to bring up connection status details. Click the button Details and read the host address given in the line IP address.