[thelist] Basic Traffic tracking question

John Handelaar genghis at members.evolt.org
Wed May 2 12:19:09 CDT 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of sales at iibiz.com
> Sent: 02 May 2001 18:10
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Basic Traffic tracking question
>
> > Run it through something like Geektools' lookup and you'll
> > find out either what the number represents, or at least who
> > owns the number block.
> >
> > http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi
>
> Ran her number thru and got:
> The GeekTools Whois Proxy has encountered an error. The cause of the error
> is:
> Unable to decipher your entry, bailing out

[snip]

> Real helpful John.  Now that's information she can take to her boss.

What, like "You need to be the Federal government to find out"? or
"You can't look them up because of privacy laws"?  I'm (a bit) sorry
for the abruptness of the response, but utterly misleading advice
given in an authoritative voice is just going to get torn down.

Her number was nonsensical, as (a) she pointed out herself by saying
"it looked like this" rather than "it was this" and (b) I told the
rest of us an hour ago.

So Geektools is out this afternoon.  It gets its data from the
reverse number lookups at arin.net, ripe,net or apnic.net
depending on geographical location.  Bookmark 'em and we've
all learned somethign today, innit?

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