Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status:
Closed
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Priority:
Trivial
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: 1.6
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Fix Version/s: 1.9
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Component/s: Administration
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Labels:None
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Environment:All
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Affected Branches:MOODLE_16_STABLE
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Fixed Branches:MOODLE_19_STABLE
Description
We all know the ip locator in Moodle is absolutely inaccurate. I've found this other Web site that seems to do a much better job. I don't know if it could be integrated into Moodle but it is worth taking a look at:
Issue Links
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| MDL-12796 | iplookup rewrite |
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From Martin Dougiamas (martin at moodle.com) Saturday, 16 July 2005, 09:40 PM:
Yes seen that before ... not free or even cheap though ... http://www.geobytes.com/Pricing.htm
From Martin Dougiamas (martin at moodle.com) Saturday, 16 July 2005, 09:47 PM:
The best thing around still seems to be hostip.info but it's woefully inaccurate ... reloading http://www.hostip.info/use.html gives me different results each time, all in Australia but from all over the country, up to 3500 km apart.
From Martin Dougiamas (martin at moodle.com) Saturday, 16 July 2005, 10:11 PM:
Some sort of optional plugin system for this might be nice just in case people wanted to use particular commercial systems. I would probably buy http://www.ip-to-location.com/free.asp for moodle.org
From non non (nbhansen at midway.uchicago.edu) Saturday, 16 July 2005, 11:20 PM:
That ip-to-location is downright scary. I tried it on the ip of one of my site visitors, and the information was so detailed that I could find the precise building where this person is living with the information provided (and I have good reason to believe it is accurate too from other information I know about this person from elsewhere).
From iudicium ferat (moodle at insecurity.org) Monday, 18 July 2005, 05:06 AM:
What about a configurable plug-in pointing to an information source of the moodle-admin user's choice?
I'm fond of http://www.whois.sc/ – and it is free for upto 100 lookups a day.
Just my 2 cents;
SxSx