[Way OT] Re: Geo location to IP mapping
Scott Weeks
surfer at mauigateway.com
Wed May 17 19:58:24 UTC 2006
----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org>
> > 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... ;-)
>
> 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.
>
> 64.29.76.9, your mauigateway.com pops up correctly as
> Honolulu. 205.166.249.10 is guessed to be somewhere random
> in the US.
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
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