Re: GeoIP information

[Fred Hollis <fred () web2objects com>]

> They could purchase sales records from online retailers. Hey guys,
> give us the IP address, city, state and zip code for each sale; we'll
> pay you a nickle each. Then correlate that with BGP announcements that
> show the range of impacted addresses.

After looking more into the geo ip topic, I totally noticed, geo data 
should NOT correlate  with BGP data at all! There are a couple of geo ip 
services that are doing it like you described, but IMO it's wrong.
See big telco's announcing /12's and having these IPs spread all over 
the country.

On 25.09.2015 at 03:51 William Herrin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson () esri com> wrote:
> > I assumed it must be based off of WHOIS.  The IP space I'm working with
> > is in the midwest (US).  The address associated with it is from our
> > primary IP block out here in California, which it would have only been
> > able to gather from WHOIS.  If it had gone off the last hop, presumably
> > it would have seen that as something a little closer to the real
> > location rather than *exactly* where our primary environment is. :)
>
> They could also do RDNS lookups and then see what rwhois says about the domain.
>
> They could purchase sales records from online retailers. Hey guys,
> give us the IP address, city, state and zip code for each sale; we'll
> pay you a nickle each. Then correlate that with BGP announcements that
> show the range of impacted addresses.
>
> They could convince folks to install web browser plugins which give
> the users rewards in exchange for ceding personal information. Or buy
> data from a company which does.
>
> -Bill