simple security

If have access to your webserver log files, you might find various IP addresses listed in there. These are the people who visit your sites. How do you find out who these IP addresses belong to? What geographic location they are coming from? Well, there is an easy way. Check out this site: http://www.dnsstuff.com/

The dnsstuff site has a lot of tools that can assist in finding out more about your visitors through their IP addresses. You can do a IPWHOIS lookup, which besides showing you the owner of the IP address block, will also show you the city from which this IP address originates.

Some of the tools that I use regularly from that site are:

• IPWHOIS
• City From IP
• Reverse DNS Lookup
• Tracert
• URL Deobfuscator (this is a nice one - it breaks/decodes complex URLs into an easy to read format)