[163181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geoip lookup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri May 24 02:51:51 2013
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 06:49:41 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <78F7BBF3-C10D-44CD-ABF1-96EB506E4D40@delong.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:39:12PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> On May 23, 2013, at 23:17 , David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
>
> > On May 23, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Andreas Larsen <andreas.larsen@ip-only.se> wrote:
> >> The whole idea of Geoip is flawed.
> >
> > Sure, but pragmatically, it's an 80% solution.
> >
> >> IP dosen't reside in countries,
> >
> > True, according to (at least some of) the RIRs they reside in regions...
> >
>
> Really? Which ones? I thought they were only issued to organizations that had operations in regions.
>
> Owen
Just because I have operations in one region does not preclude me from having operations
in other regions. YMMV of course.
/bill
