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Find the Geopgraphical Location of an IP Address

There are a few applications that give the geographical location of an IP address *. My favorite one is VisualRoute. It not only maps the location of the source and destination IP addresses, but also all the hops in between. The down side to it is that it is not available for Linux and it costs $50 per user.

The http://mapulator.com site gives you pretty much the same information online for free, but it has been down for quite some time now.

Lately I have been using http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup. But it only maps the destination IP address.

If anyone knows of a Linux application that would map all the hops and the final IP destination, please leave a comment!

* IP addresses do not have a geographical location per se. Any program that maps IP addresses can only give you where the whole class of IP addresses (that the specified IP address belongs to) is registered to be located at. They do this by querying a database that has that information. This is accurate down to a city level at best. Do not expect to find where someone lives by their IP address!

Install Subversion and Subclipse for Eclipse on Ubuntu

If you do not have Eclipse installed yet, run:

sudo apt-get install eclipse

Install Subversion

sudo apt-get install subversion

Install the Subversion plugin for Eclipse

Get the Java bindings for Subversion:

sudo apt-get install libsvn-java

Now we are ready to install the plugins in Eclipse.

Open Eclipse.

Go to Help -> Install New Software

Then hit the “Add” button.

Put “Subclipse 1.6.x (Eclipse 3.2+)” under Name and “http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x” under Location:

The above is for Elclips 3.2+ and Subversion 1.6.x.

If you have different Eclipse or Subversion versions, check this list and substitute accordingly:

Name: Subclipse 1.6.x (Eclipse 3.2+)
URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x

Name: Subclipse 1.4.x (Eclipse 3.2+)
URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x

Name: Subclipse 1.2.x (Eclipse 3.2+)
URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x

Name: Subclipse 1.0.x (Eclipse 3.0/3.1)
URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.0.x

More info about the different versions: http://subclipse.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectProcess?pageID=p4wYuA

Then hit “OK”. You will now be presented with these options:

If you are unsure what Subclipse component you will need, you can check all of them. Also, keep in mind that you can always go back to this in the future and install/uninstall any of the components as needed.

Then “Next” and “Finish” on the subsequent screens.

After the plugins are installed, it will prompt you to restart Eclipse. Go ahead and do so.

You are not done yet. You need to fix the JavaHL.

Edit the eclipse.ini file:

sudo vi /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse.ini

Add the following line under -vmargs:

-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni

Here is what my eclipse.ini file looks like:

$ cat /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse.ini
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.0.200.v20090520
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
-startup
--launcher.library
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
-startup
/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
--launcher.library
/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.0.200.v20090520
-vmargs
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=//usr/share/eclipse/dropins
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=//usr/share/eclipse/dropins

For more info on fixing JavaHL if you need it: http://subclipse.tigris.org/wiki/JavaHL#head-bb1dd50f9ec2f0d8c32246430c00e237d27a04fe

You should be able to use Subversion with Eclipse for your projects at this point.