So: even if you did have the user's IP address, it would not tell you 'the exact location of the person' - it would tell you their ISP and the centre of their IP range. GPS, SSID-sniffing) which aren't passive and require collaboration with the user's device. The country and region can be attained, but a more precise location requires other techniques (e.g. This is why not even Google can accurately identify the specific location of a user before they have signed into their Google account. This allows approximations of the user from their IP address, but unlike telephone numbers it is not possible to get a precise location from this. However, a side-effect of most ISPs' dynamic allocation systems is that they split both the world and their subnet into regions, which they then assign in a mostly one-to-one relationship. This is also complicated by IP-sharing, which happens when addresses are scarce. Many ISPs dynamically allocate IPv4 addresses, meaning that increased precision gained from a user who enables GPS location on their browser or posts geo-tagged images to (e.g.) Facebook is lost once the IP address is re-allocated. IP address geolocation is, at least for IPv4, doomed to fail except in specific edge-cases. In addition to answer which states that the IP address that you are detecting is not that of the user: This is just fake, right? Or did it used to work like this? If so, that would seem very concerning. When I enter the coordinates in google maps I get unknown locations.

The GEO locations the IP addresses hold are mostly in America some in Ireland and some in the Netherlands. Then copy the coordinates and use google maps to find the exact location of the person.Īfter some time getting the preferred Netstat arguments and some filtering with awk netstat -ntpw | awk ''. To find the geo-location one has to copy the last added IP address from the list into a IP address lookup tool like. Specifically, by looking at the IP addresses that appear in the 'Foreign Address' column of Netstat. It basically stated that it was possible to find out the location of a Facebook user that sent you a Facebook message. Going through the 'article' there is not a lot of details given. With the click-bait title 'Facebook User location Finder' Of course I clicked it.

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