Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

[Brad Knowles <brad () stop mail-abuse org>]

At 6:35 PM -0400 2005-06-13, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

>  Too bad no one has servers in 100s or even a 1000 or more ISPs in dozens
>  of countries with TCP connections to a statistically significant portion
>  of the Internet on a daily basis who could possibly measure, say, RTT
>  (not sure why TTL is relevant) and other things, and perhaps use that
>  along with other information to create a database that they could then
>  give to customers who need geo-location data for their "mission critical"
>  applications.
>
>  That would probably be pretty darned accurate.

        You mean like Akamai?

>  Of course, that would be a "commercial service"....

        You mean like Akamai?

>  =)

        ;-)

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