IPInfoOffline 1.70

Overview

IP Info Offline is a small communications utility that can provide detailed information about internet protocol (IP) addresses which are stored inside the application.

The software has a compressed database of IP addresses, IP block ranges, organizational information, country name, country code, assigned date, and other useful information which it can retrieve and display for the user of the software.

GeoLite City database support has been added. This is a freely available database which is accessible by city, country and ASN. The database supports both older IPv4 IP addresses and the newer, but as yet less used, IPv6 IP addresses that are increasingly getting assigned. The switch to IPv6 has been necessitated by the reality that there were not enough IP addresses available and companies who used them were running out of available batches of IP addresses for their cloud hosting, web hosting and other online services (in several cases companies like Microsoft made early bulk purchases of large collections of available IP addresses to ensure they didn't run out!)

The user can go to the GeoLite web site, download the latest database version and install it in the same folder where the IP Info Offline executable program is located. Once added to the folder, the software will look for and access this database to use its frequently updated country and city information across both IPv4 and IPv6 IP address types.

The information displayed within the application can be copied to the Windows clipboard or saved to either a CSV, XML, HTML or plain text file for later review.

Installation

The installation of the program completed quickly. The user can choose whether to download the extra IP city and country information from GeoLite.

There were no malicious extra software included during the setup process.

IP Info Offline will run on many Windows systems from Windows 98 to Windows 8.

Interface

The interface is simple with a menu system and small toolbar icons. There are hover text tips that will appear when moving the mouse over any of the enabled toolbar icons.

The program remembers the size of the application window if it was re-sized by the user.

IP Info Offline will run on many Windows systems from Windows 98 to Windows 8.

Pros

• Look up internet protocol (IP) information without needing to be online to do so
• Access the latest city and country information for IP addresses from GeoLite
• Save IP information to the Windows clipboard
• Save IP information to a CSV, XML, HTML or plain text file

Cons

• None.

Conclusion

IP Info Offline is a useful offline IP look up that can provide detailed IP information using the both an internal database and one from GeoLite that can be downloaded prior to using the software offline. The IP information can be copied to the clipboard or saved to different types of files.