[163173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geoip lookup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu May 23 17:37:10 2013
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <CAH_OBidcPsdRSyRjaPFCLYRd5_tcXTys54GSdaG71-_GVeELkg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 17:36:56 -0400
To: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2013-05-23, at 16:56, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks you're right and everyone does have the same data in
> historical format. Looks like RIPE has everything compiled into what
> is current. So if a block hasn't changed for 10 years, it'll be in the
> RIPE dataset vs with the others, I'd have to write something to
> overlay the data through out time to get current?
Could be. You've looked at this more than I have, now -- I was mainly =
trying to point out that bulk data retrieval is a possible option so you =
could avoid whois-hammering :-)
Joe