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Re: New netblock Geolocate wrong (Google)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Tue Jan 19 11:16:01 2010

Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:15:11 +0000
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 19/01/2010 12:13, Richard Barnes wrote:
> FWIW, there has been some work in the IETF on creating protocols to
> allow pretty rich location information to be published in reverse DNS.

This would be good, but it must be remembered that this would only ever
be one clue about where a user actually is; for example we can not
expect people who use geo-ip to try to honour international copy rights
to ever use it.

Sadly ;-)

Andy



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