So many problems with this... first of all, www.whitehouse.gov is not an IP address, it's a host name. That's more of a technicality. The real problem is that the address returned by that tool is not the address of the person -using- the IP address, it's most likely the address where that IP address is registered. So if an ISP registers a block of IP addresses using their address in New York City, and assigns those IP addresses to their users in Kansas, you'd see the marker on the satellite image over New York City, not Kansas.

In general, this method will get you relatively close to the location (i.e. same city, or at least same state), but that pointer will almost never be over the actual house or building in which the end user is located.

My internet crashed rght after I posted this, so I didn't have a chance to see if it worked. I tried videosift's IP and it came up as Sterling? not in australia like it should be. I'm not super-technical, but my IP doesn't work either. AARRGGHH

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Our server is in Virginia.

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Hmmmm I don't see that in Gnome.

But yeah this guys seems to not know the difference between a domain name and an ip address.

This is not always accurate.

Yeah, for me it shows the location of my ISP not me, which is on the other side of town from where I live.

Oh and why do a whole trace route to get the IP of a domain name? why not just do a nslookup or whatever type of domain name resolution your OS has?

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