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RE: IPv4 country of origin


From: Peter Salus <peter () matrix net>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:36:44 -0500



Ralph,

You and alex exchanged:

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, alex () 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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