[52499] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv4 country of origin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Salus)
Thu Oct 3 12:37:56 2002
To: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:36:44 -0500
From: Peter Salus <peter@matrix.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Ralph,
You and alex exchanged:
>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
As near as we can tell, 194.196.100.86 is
near Eisenhuettenstadt, Brandenburg, Deustschland.
Is this good enough?
Peter
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