[31058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: So is this service available out there ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Joffe)
Thu Sep 7 18:30:58 2000
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From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
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Rick Irving wrote:
>
> > Do you know of any service or database that
> > will provide a relationship
> > between Class C and major geographical regions?
>
> Anything public ?
This is the holy grail of Advertising Knowledge on the Internet, is
non-trivial*, and many people claim to have the answer.
*VPNs
*NAT
*Most ISPs have large nets (/8, /16) and assign randomly (and change
arbitrarily)
*AOL (12 egress points for their entire 40M user base, no mapping).
Many have tried to map the net (I believe MERIT has links) with nothing
better than 50% relevance at the time of the mapping effort. As we all
know things change.
There is a group who believe there is a solution ;-)
Probably 6 months away...
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Rodney Joffe
CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
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