[52489] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv4 country of origin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Doncaster)
Thu Oct 3 10:55:36 2002
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:56:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
To: "alex@yuriev.com" <alex@yuriev.com>
Cc: Barry Raveendran Greene <bgreene@cisco.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10210031053370.332-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
> > > Is there a more accurate method to determine the country of origin for an
> > > IP than the methods I've described above?
>
> Yes, at least three companies have databases of pretty much all /24s and
> above mapped up to a zip code.
So far I've been referred to 3 commercial services, and all (including
NetGeo/Ixia) fail on the example I gave (194.196.100.86).
-Ralph
