[163182] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geoip lookup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri May 24 02:58:04 2013
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130524064941.GF23438@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 23:57:06 -0700
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 23, 2013, at 23:49 , bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:39:12PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>=20
>> On May 23, 2013, at 23:17 , David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On May 23, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Andreas Larsen =
<andreas.larsen@ip-only.se> wrote:
>>>> The whole idea of Geoip is flawed.
>>>=20
>>> Sure, but pragmatically, it's an 80% solution.
>>>=20
>>>> IP dosen't reside in countries,
>>>=20
>>> True, according to (at least some of) the RIRs they reside in =
regions...=20
>>>=20
>>=20
>> Really? Which ones? I thought they were only issued to organizations =
that had operations in regions.
>>=20
>> Owen
>=20
> Just because I have operations in one region does not preclude =
me from having operations
> in other regions. YMMV of course.
>=20
> /bill
That was exactly my point, Bill... If you have operations in RIPE and =
ARIN regions, it is entirely possible for you to obtain addresses from =
RIPE or ARIN and use them in both locations, or, obtain addresses from =
both RIPE and ARIN and use them in their respective regions, or mix and =
match in just about any imaginable way. Thus, IP addresses don't reside =
in regions, either. They are merely issued somewhat regionally.
Owen
