[165361] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: looking for hostname geographic hint validation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Fri Aug 30 19:09:36 2013
In-Reply-To: <20130830222557.GA30655@caida.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:09:21 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Bradley Huffaker <bhuffake@caida.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Bradley Huffaker <bhuffake@caida.org>wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 02:45:09PM -0700, Matthew Petach wrote:
> > Hitting 93% accuracy is actually pretty mindblowing
> > from my perspective, given how random some of
> > the naming choices are. ^_^;
>
> This is the number of times we think we have an answer and it is wrong.
>
Ah, so that would include cases like thinking CH1 and CHE might
be nearby, rather than halfway around the planet, but wouldn't include
things like MUD, where there wouldn't even be a guess at an answer.
> It does not include the number of times we failed to find an answer that
> is there. Although we have plans to search for nonstandard names in the
> future, we currently do not look for them and so can't get them wrong.
>
Thanks for the clarification around the number--makes much
more sense now. :)
Matt
