Spider Hunter

I was wandering through my local book store and I happen to come across a book with an interesting title IP Location. It turns out to be a book on geolocation from several different points of view. I flipped through it and I’m planning on purchasing it soon, I also put it up on my […]

Earlier today I was thinking about things that I need to track spammers and I started to redesign the IP Address database in my head.
Turns out I am going to need this in the event that I try to sue spammers for sending me the huge amounts of email they do. I’d start with needing […]

I’m not sure if I have mentioned this before, (I’m sure I have somewhere) but the project that is taking up most of my time there days is http://SpamFreeEmail.com. I’ve been implementing a anti-spam email server using open source tools and writing the email server myself.
I was working on tracking which country the spam messages […]

I’m starting to incorperate IP location information in the online version of the IP database at http://ipd.spiderhunter.com While I’m working on it for the next few days it will be open to everyone, but once I have it the way I like it I will be putting it under the subscription services.

I just opened up the script to go after all Nethandles that way I’ll have the location information, even if I don’t use it. More information is always better.

Now that I have a process to get the nethandle for differnet IP address ranges I can now look at the ARIN Whois data and find the city, state, zipcode and country for that IP address range.
I’m currently only looking at IP ranges that have 256 or less IPs in them, figuring that anything larger […]

I’ve been playing with the idea of getting the nethandles from ARIN to be able to associate the smaller CIDR ranges with the City, State and maybe even the Zip Code for IP addresses and for the most part I’ve done it. I’ve got an automated process that is gathering data for the nethandles and […]

Now that I have some real data on ASNs to work with I decided to see what ASNs were responsible for hiting my robots.txt file the most and I like the results. Here are the top 4: * AS15169 : 630 Hits : Google * AS14776 : 417 Hits : Inktomi * AS3561 : 230 […]

I’ve been debating this for a while now, but I think I am going to impliment a web service as part of theIP database. It will be a WSDL Feed based on soap. I am thinking that the data that the feeds will be released similar to the data on the IP database itself. To […]

As I’ve been creating the IP Database I’ve been thinking about exactly how many IP addresses are visitng my sites, compared to the total number of IPs I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that less then 10% of the 4+ billion IP addresses are used for web surfing or anything […]