From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 25 16:04:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27590 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 25 May 1998 16:04:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from distance.net (fike@distance.net [209.142.224.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27585 for ; Mon, 25 May 1998 16:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fike@distance.net) Received: from localhost (fike@localhost) by distance.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA00497; Mon, 25 May 1998 19:03:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fike@distance.net) Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 19:03:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Fike Force To: jivko@ijs.com cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Geographical location of IP addresses. In-Reply-To: <199805071508.PAA01016@s2.ijs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jivko, The easiest way to find out where people are coming from is to whois -a and the first 3 octects of the ip address, this will show you who owns the blocks. Another suggestion is to traceroute to the hackers or carders ip address. Sometimes his uplinks will have geo information at each router. RPD On Thu, 7 May 1998 jivko@ijs.com wrote: > > Hi there, > > Sorry for this not FreeBSD related question but since it is ISP related one > I figured you might be able to help us out. > > Some customers of ours have been having problems with hackers placing > orders with stolen credit cards from particular geographical locations and > they have asked us to help them limit the number of those orders somehow. > Any idea of how this could be done? > > I was thinking that perhaps one possible solution would be to have a list > of network addresses physically located in those areas of the world and > either completely remove ability to place orders for users from those areas > or at least not charge the credit cards on-line for such users until the > orders have been confirmed somehow. So far, however, I have not been able > to find information about how different network addresses are distributed > in the world. Any idea where I could find such information? > > Thanks > Jivko > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message