[52508] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv4 country of origin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary E. Miller)
Thu Oct 3 14:34:26 2002
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:32:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
To: alex@yuriev.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10210031053370.332-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Yo Alex!
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.
These DBs are a joke. I have /19's that are SWIPed to the billing
office but used in remote POPs. No-one is ever gonna figure out where
they really are.
Except for the IPs I set RFC1712 LOC records on.
I see load-balancing by geo-code do way more harm than good.
RGDS
GARY
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701
gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
