[90418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Way OT] Re: Geo location to IP mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Tue May 23 15:05:41 2006
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 20:03:33 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <1147895827.15487.5.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In article <1147895827.15487.5.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>, Jeroen
Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> writes
>Try http://www.hostip.info it is reasonable accurate in most cases and
>hell it is for free. It depends what you need it for of course but it is
>far better than nothing.
>
>The problem with this one is that they are still gathering data and they
>depend on user input, but it looks pretty accurate to what I have found
>out.
The problem with their "user input" is that the result they return is
typically the ISP NOC location (in my case 200 miles south of me, about
halfway across the country).
If I "correct" this, then suddenly all my ISP's users appear to be
located in the same town as me. Which is probably more wrong than them
all appearing to be where they've guessed the NOC location to be.
--
Roland Perry
