Determining who operates which APs

Usually people that host websites might look up the owner of a particular IP. For instance, some jerk from the UK was trying to hack into my PHP admin account. Needless to say I sent the info to the hosting company to investigate.

is one I use. There are also programs you can install on the website to gather stats on users, such as piwik or google analytics. They have a limited about of IP lookup in them. More interesting to serious webmasters would be stats on what browser they use, plugins, etc.

Sometimes if you are using a wifi hotspot (well actually any wifi you don't own), it is interesting to see what IP they use. I've run ip2location at Peets for instance, though I don't recall the details anymore. In this particular application, think of it as the unix/linux whoami.

miso wrote in news:jkahkt$pkh$ snipped-for-privacy@speranza.aioe.org:

That's not going to give you who owns the AP. It only will give you the ISP they are using which is a dead end unless you can call up the ISP and get someone to hand over their customer's name.

No argument from me. I'm not sure why I said owner. You just get the IP.