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   From: bugsy@zimage.comBUGSY   
      
   Mike Easter  wrote:   
      
   > John Robertson wrote:   
   >> It's not your location, nor his location that the original poster seeks.   
   >   
   > The OP didn't make clear what his actual intentions are.   
   >   
   > The only purpose of his 'premise' icanhazip is one's own IP.   
   >   
   > He also said this:   
   >   
   >> The well known web standins are whatismyipaddress.com (or equivalent) and   
   >> geo-lookup.ifiy.org (or equivalent) but a browser has much more identifying   
   >> baggage than a simple curl/whatever command would be while using a vpn.   
   >   
   > ... which doesn't clarify to me what his actual intentions are.   
   >   
   > I think the OP should state what his intentions are before people start   
   > finding him a tool to perform some ambiguous task.   
      
   Fair enough.   
   I'll describe the problem set in more detail so that you can help better.   
      
   To your original concern, it doesn't matter where the vpn actually is.   
   What matters is only where a typical geolocate command reports it to be.   
      
   It's not me I'm asking about (I know where I am).   
   It's not even where the vpn server happens to be (as I wouldn't care).   
      
   What matters is what any given company THINKS the vpn server is located.   
      
   Allow me to explain with a simple set of common every day examples.   
      
   Sometimes I use a set of vpn services that are outside the united states   
   Sometimes they're inside the united states   
   Sometimes they're in a certain county   
   Or city   
      
   The vpn server's rough location sometimes matters, where the first step is   
   the c:\windows\system32\curl.exe to find the vpn services' current ip addy   
      
   But the ip address isn't all you need sometimes   
   Sometimes you need the location of the service   
      
   For example   
   When watching netflix movies, the country itself is what sometimes matters   
   When watching current big time sports events, the state sometimes matters   
   When setting up & using a google account, the locality sometimes matters   
      
   When you have only one login to a program, you can't afford to be testing   
   out each vpn location without knowing how the vpn geolocates to others.   
      
   What I'm asking seems to be pretty much what robertson understood it to be   
   With so many geolocation batch commands to choose from, which do you use?   
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