[90369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Way OT] Re: Geo location to IP mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Wed May 17 17:29:31 2006
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:28:55 -0400
To: surfer@mauigateway.com, nanog@merit.edu
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <446b8060.342.7783.1648080596@mauigateway.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 03:58 PM 5/17/2006, Scott Weeks wrote:
[ SNIP ]
>That's not the address space I manage. It's just my ISP.
> From www.hostip.info I get " ... actually we haven't a
>clue." The IP space I manage is a /15 and is in ARIN, so
>it's hard to miss...
>
>scott
It's not really fair to baseline the credibility of
any geo location discussion based on hostip.info.
There are much better commercial services like Quovus,
MaxMind, and Akamai.
-M<
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