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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. I vaguely recall that. Unfortunately the SNR on NANOG is pretty low these days, often below my boredom threshold and I don't work at an ISP any more, so I don't pay that much attention to it as I used to. > But the basic question is flawed - IP addresses don't map to country. > > Country is a fairly fluid social construct, IP address is something > 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 some cases it can still be a useful bit of information to have though, if you accept that there are occasions when it will be completely wrong. James -- 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