[81504] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Mon Jun 13 18:43:32 2005
In-Reply-To: <E9E0164C-29DC-45AD-90B3-5E7FEE51F4AD@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:42:44 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 6:35 PM -0400 2005-06-13, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> Too bad no one has servers in 100s or even a 1000 or more ISPs in dozens
> of countries with TCP connections to a statistically significant portion
> of the Internet on a daily basis who could possibly measure, say, RTT
> (not sure why TTL is relevant) and other things, and perhaps use that
> along with other information to create a database that they could then
> give to customers who need geo-location data for their "mission critical"
> applications.
>
> That would probably be pretty darned accurate.
You mean like Akamai?
> Of course, that would be a "commercial service"....
You mean like Akamai?
> =)
;-)
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