[10748] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Timezone analysis of IP addresses/Domain Names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abigail)
Sun Apr 13 00:25:51 1997
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
To: advax@triumf.ca
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 00:15:36 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Reply-To: abigail@fnx.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970313172147.19063G-100000@andrew.triumf.ca> from "Andrew Daviel" at Mar 13, 97 05:31:39 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
You, Andrew Daviel, wrote:
++
++ On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 D.White@mcs.surrey.ac.uk wrote:
++
++ > Hi all,
++ >
++ > Does anyone have any ideas on how to find country or geographical info or
++ > timezone info for an arbitrary domain name or IP address?
++ >
++
++ See RFC 1876, which would like to insert geographic position into DNS
++ records. The Planet Multicast project at NLANR is also trying to
++ obtain geographic positions. They have a small database of (mainly US and
++ Mbone) cites vs. position records. I started a (very small) database of
++ ip address to city records, plus for localised companies in .com, .org
++ one can ask InterNIC. Many non-US countries are small enough that they
++ only have one timezone, and a blob on a world map is not so far off (only
++ hundreds of km, maybe, not thousands).
FNX isn't a large company, yet you'll find machines in the .fnx.com
domain in the USA, Canada, UK, Zwitserland, Singapore, Australia and
Tokyo. That's 6 timezones spanning 14 hours.
Abigail
