[52510] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv4 country of origin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Thu Oct 3 15:06:46 2002
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:10:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210031128470.24503-100000@catbert.rellim.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.
>
> 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.
Wrong answer.
Just because free public dbs dont have that info does not mean that it does
not exist.
Alex
