[52551] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 country of origin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Fri Oct 4 08:06:53 2002
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:05:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210031614250.30241-100000@catbert.rellim.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 alex@yuriev.com wrote:
>
> > cruniching the data that says "Of 10 sites that I saw this IP address access
> > and provide a clearing for the credit card transaction, 9 ended up being
> > within 3 miles radius of ZZZZ. Lets put a tag on that"
>
> I would be REALLY interested to know how you measure mileage with IP.
>
> I tried 6 IPs with one of these locator services and one was off by over
> 2,000 miles, one by 150 miles and 2 by 10 miles.
Again, majority of companies that have that data will not provide it to you
for free. In a case of someone like Amazon, they probably wont measure
mileage. Rather whey would flag transactions that make no geographic sense
and pull them for separate processing.
ALex
