[90358] in North American Network Operators' Group
[Way OT] Re: Geo location to IP mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Wed May 17 14:17:06 2006
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:09:08 -1000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij@ie.ymp.gov>
> > 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.
>
> Only 100 miles? I entered the address of a box I have in
> Virginia, and it says it's in California. Well at least
> it got the country right.
One of the geolocation thingies said my addresses were in
Amsterdam. That's only 10,000 miles from Hawaii. 2500
miles more and that's exactly the opposite side of the
planet... ;-)
scott
