Editing IP address (section)

==Geolocation==
{{Expand section|date=July 2020}}{{Main|Internet geolocation}}
A host may use [[geolocation software|geolocation]] to deduce the [[geographic position]] of its communicating peer.<ref name="oreilly">{{Cite book |last=Holdener |first=Anthony T. |url=https://archive.org/details/htmlgeolocation00iiia_202 |title=HTML5 Geolocation |publisher=[[O'Reilly Media]] |year=2011 |isbn=9781449304720 |page=[https://archive.org/details/htmlgeolocation00iiia_202/page/n19 11] |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Komosny |first=Dan |date=2021-07-22 |title=Retrospective IP Address Geolocation for Geography-Aware Internet Services |journal=Sensors |language=en |volume=21 |issue=15 |pages=4975 |bibcode=2021Senso..21.4975K |doi=10.3390/s21154975 |issn=1424-8220 |pmc=8348169 |pmid=34372212 |doi-access=free |hdl=11012/200946}}</ref> This is typically done by retrieving geolocation info about the IP address of the other node from a database.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-01-25 |title=IP geolocation (The NetOp Organization) |url=http://www.netop.org/services/ip-geolocation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125023649/http://www.netop.org/services/ip-geolocation |archive-date=25 January 2009 |access-date=2024-06-30}}</ref>