Whois-IP is a network utility for Windows computers. The application can carry out two different tasks: Whois and Ping. The first one allows you to gather information about an IP address from three different sources: RIPE, APNIC and ARIN. Those are whois servers from the European, Asia/Pacific and US regions. A simple IP search is supposed to give you quite a bit of information about the IP. Ideally, you would be able to know to what country and even city that IP is assigned to and who administers it. In practice, I've found that this function can be wrong at times. For example, I have tried with IP addresses from Argentina and Canada. The Argentine IP addresses were from Australia, according to Whois-IP, the Canadian addresses were from the US. This is most likely an error on the servers, and not the application itself. Most other searches were successful, which shows how important it is to double check all information. The Ping function allows you to check if a single IP address or an IP range is responsive to ping requests. You have to add a start and end IP address or simply an IP address and the application will start "pinging" it. You can even specify how many ping requests Whois-IP should send.
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