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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Waters wrote: > James Fidell wrote: > >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoip/ > > > This also got an airing on NANOG a few months back, so read the archive > there for other service providers. > > But the basic question is flawed - IP addresses don't map to country. Even where they do map to country they don't necessarily tell you anything useful. IIRC all AOL users appear to be in the USA. It's also quite possible that corporate networks will interconnect to the public Internet in all sorts of complex ways. > Country is a fairly fluid social construct, IP address is something In some cases it is a highly controversial political construct. e.g. RoC and PRC. > technical and well defined. > > Some IP addresses occur in more than one geographical location (The root > DNS server "F" is a good example, as well as RFC1918 space). > > I suspect some IP addresses are probably in geostationary orbit. In which case they are "in" the country of the satellite's flag. You don't even need to go that far... Ships, aircraft and embassys also have the same issue. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFIrZ5soRLMhsZpFcRAulyAJ4tzOy8tOA4R+lXojxDQE2351XsdACaAn/9 qAiTdrwCRNtBzK/t3AH8UHo= =EMt9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html