IPv4 country of origin

Peter Salus peter at matrix.net
Thu Oct 3 16:36:44 UTC 2002



Ralph,

You and alex exchanged:

>On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, alex at yuriev.com wrote:
>
>> > > Is there a more accurate method to determine the country of origin for an
>> > > IP than the methods I've described above?
>> 
>> Yes, at least three companies have databases of pretty much all /24s and
>> above mapped up to a zip code.
>
>So far I've been referred to 3 commercial services, and all (including
>NetGeo/Ixia) fail on the example I gave (194.196.100.86).
>
>- -Ralph

As near as we can tell, 194.196.100.86 is 
near Eisenhuettenstadt, Brandenburg, Deustschland.

Is this good enough?

Peter

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