[52492] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 country of origin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Thu Oct 3 11:34:01 2002
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:32:38 -0700
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: alex@yuriev.com
Cc: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>,
Barry Raveendran Greene <bgreene@cisco.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10210031107530.332-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:10:45AM -0400, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
>
> > 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).
The Akamai EdgeScape service is correct for 194.196.100.86.
> Maybe I missed those posts, sorry.
>
> I am not aware of any commercial service tht has a /32s in its databases.
> Neither am I aware of any of the companies that have the data providing the
> service of 'lookup the location'. It is incorporated into the other services
> that they provide and are used for internal purposes.
I'm not sure how far Akamai goes in its database. I do know for a fact that
there are entries more specific than /24s in its database.
