IPv4 country of origin
Gary E. Miller
gem at rellim.com
Thu Oct 3 18:32:58 UTC 2002
Yo Alex!
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.
These DBs are a joke. I have /19's that are SWIPed to the billing
office but used in remote POPs. No-one is ever gonna figure out where
they really are.
Except for the IPs I set RFC1712 LOC records on.
I see load-balancing by geo-code do way more harm than good.
RGDS
GARY
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