My StatCounter has a neat feature, in which IP addresses are put on a map I can access. The locations are not precise enough to go and find somebody's house -- my server shows up as several miles away from where I live -- but usually you can get that close.Except that people who know how to rascal such things can apparently show a server where none exists. Every so often, I get a hit from a spot in the Atlantic Ocean smack on the Equator, a few hundred kilometers west of Gabon and south of Ghana.
There is, far as I can tell, nothing there but water.
There are a couple of tiny islands closer to Gabon, farther east -- Sao Tome and Principe, and south and west of them, a tinier spot, Annobon, but nothing relatively close to where the push-pin is.
So, either somebody is pulling my leg, or their server is way far away from the nearest possible land mass ...
Is that at the 0,0 point(zero latitude, zero longitude)? If so, it's an interesting place to choose for a server ... and creates a story idea or two.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever watched Lost? Kinda makes you wonder, huh...?
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Doesn't look like where latitude and longitude start at zero.
ReplyDeleteMayhaps it is on a big ship in the middle of the ocean. Liners do have the capacity to hold a server and make satellite internet connecions. Just a wild thought.
ReplyDeleteIt is 0/0
ReplyDeleteHere's what I got putting "0N 0W" in google maps and zooming out:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=0N+0W&sll=40.768702,-73.944065&sspn=0.104916,0.154495&g=NY+10044&ie=UTF8&ll=-4.390229,8.261719&spn=34.815664,39.550781&z=5&iwloc=addr
IP may not be your physical location. One of my friends in Gresham shows an IP in the Bronx. My home IP sometimes shows Philadelphia. The servers I have used in the middle east have all shown IP addresses either in the US or Germany. One of them only 80 miles from my home.
ReplyDeleteHmm. I sit corrected. I was eyeballing it.
ReplyDeleteSystem glitch of some kind, maybe?
My guess is that the answer is simpler than that - when the IP address has no location data associated with it, 0/0 sounds like a reasonable default.
ReplyDeleteIt's the server aboard the dreadnought.
ReplyDeleteAquaman reads your blog.
ReplyDeleteWhich, as far as superheros go, is absolutely nothing to brag about.
It is quite possible it is me, while I'm in Angola. I know the system there is prehistoric at best, and I've had my computer being listed as anywhere from Ghana to Portugal, depending on the day of the week.
ReplyDeleteBrad --
ReplyDeleteUsually I see the push-pin in Angola when you are over there. Could be, though.
Is there a pattern to the time? I'm usually there every other month for 2 weeks. Except, I won't be going until May this time.
ReplyDeleteSo if it shows up between now and the 1st of May, it ain't me.
Could be a US Navy ship.
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