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Re: Geo location to IP mapping

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue May 16 02:42:50 2006

Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:38:52 +0300
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>,
	Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0605152255040.4154@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


At 10:55 PM 15-05-06 -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote:

>       On Mon, 15 May 2006, Roland Perry wrote:
>     > > http://www.hostip.info/use.html, which looks good, at least from a
>     > > API/ ease of use prespective.
>     >
>     > I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I really am. 
> That's
>     > quite a long way out in a small country like England.

100miles?  Is that all? Try 6096 miles!

My IP is 132.66.222.13 and it lists it as Beijing, China yet I am in 
Israel.  This IP has never been in APNIC.  It has been listed in ARIN and 
RIPE since 1989 as being Israel so I guess hostip is not the most reliable 
system to use.

-Hank



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