ip2location.com experience.

[danleonida]

Hi all! It is my first visit to this forum and a truly hope someone can help me.

In the past I have been using ip2location.com to trace the origins of some of the emails I was getting.

Not long ago, I got an email with what seemed like an invalid IP:6.0.3790.3959

Yet ip2location accepted it, for some reason changed it to 6.14.221.119 and sent me to Ft. Huachuca AZ. when I traced it. Here's the full link:
www.ip2location.com/6.0.3790.3959

1. Can anyone verify my results and...
2. Does anyone know what the heck is going on?

Thx in advance -dan

[AboveTheLogic]

hmm thats good question, that makes no sense to me at all

[danleonida]

I sent an email on the subject to sales@ip2location.com They didn't seem too happy with the results but they gave me a bit of useful info. It seems their s/w replaces the large numbers in IPs with the MOD(256) of the number, then the integer ratio of lrg.num/256 is used as a carry to the next IP number to the left.

I tried it; got a valid-looking IP that was NOT 6.14.221.119, but simmilar. I can dig it out, if there is interest. Sure enough, the new IP address took to the same place: Ft. Huachuca, AZ, USAISC!

The question IS: Is someone hacking the military's Information Systems Command HQ computers? ...and if so, should I report it the
Base Commander,
Ft Huachuca, AZ.,
c/o U.S. President
president@whitehouse.gov ??

Any thoughts, anyone?!

c u -dan

[wimiadmin]

You should definitely report the incident....however, president@whitehouse.gov is not going to be the proper reporting channels.

You can contact the base operator at (520) 533-7111 and ask them to connect you to the Computer Security section....could also be referred to COMSEC.