[90359] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Way OT] Re: Geo location to IP mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed May 17 14:21:31 2006
In-Reply-To: <446b66c4.114.752f.1392251684@mauigateway.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:21:02 -0400
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On May 17, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
>
> ----- 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... ;-)
Sometimes knowing which planet you are dealing with can be useful...
Regards
Marshall
>
> scott
