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Key: MDL-3766
Type: Improvement Improvement
Status: Resolved Resolved
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: Trivial Trivial
Assignee: Petr Skoda
Reporter: N Hansen
Votes: 0
Watchers: 2
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Moodle

ip locator

Created: 16/Jul/05 09:09 PM   Updated: 03/Jan/08 03:20 AM
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Component/s: Administration
Affects Version/s: 1.6
Fix Version/s: 1.9

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Participants: Dan Poltawski, Martin Dougiamas, N Hansen and Petr Skoda
Security Level: None
Resolved date: 03/Jan/08
Affected Branches: MOODLE_16_STABLE
Fixed Branches: MOODLE_19_STABLE


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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:



http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

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Martin Dougiamas added a comment - 18/Jul/05 05:06 AM
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;

Sx


Dan Poltawski added a comment - 03/Jan/08 03:20 AM
There is a new iplookup in CVS which should fix this for 1.9