How I can use IP-to country lookup ?


If you’re asking your self how can the IP-to country lookup be useful to you here you can find some examples about what info you can get with this kind of lookup.

- Tracing an email example

For example you’ve received an email message from sender, and you would like to know from what location this message was sent. Every email message contains some info in the header section of an email . Usually you don’t see those info from header in your email client , but this doesn’t mean that those info are unavailable. You can read that by opening the header of message . If you use for example outlook express as your email client you can right click on message in your inbox , then choose properties from menu and choose details tab.


In the text bellow in details tab you can read additional info about email message you’ve received. Usually you can find all mail servers involved in transmitting this message to you , and one of those email server was server that received this message from sender. This firs mail server took IP address from which sender sent message and logs this address in message header. In outlook express in details tab you’ve open you will find rows beginning with Received by: Those rows are presented backward and that means that last Received By row represents the first mail server that received this message from sender , something like this:
Received: from unknown (XX.XX.XXX.XX) by xxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx.xxx (YY.YYY.YYY.YYY) with ESMTP;
Where :
XX.XX.XXX.XX is Ip address of the device used by sender to send this email . xxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx.xxx is DNS lookup name of the mail server that received this message by sender
YY.YYY.YYY.YYY – Ip address of the mail server that first received message from sender.
You can copy this XX.XX.XXX.XX IP address and use Ip-to-country lookup on our site to see location that message was sent from. You can also perform a DNS lookup from you command prompt (Start/Run/cmd) and type
nslookup - to see if there is some reverse DNS record about this ip address to try to find out more about location that message was sent from.

Note: If you are using some web based mail client to collect your email messages like yahoo mail , hotmail ,… you can also see full message header following the link provided by your mail company. For example on yahoo web mail in the bottom right corner of the message you can find link: full headers , and click on that link will show you all message header info.

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