RE: IPv4 country of origin

["Gary E. Miller" <gem () rellim com>]

Yo Alex!

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.

These DBs are a joke.  I have /19's that are SWIPed to the billing
office but used in remote POPs.  No-one is ever gonna figure out where
they really are.

Except for the IPs I set RFC1712 LOC records on.

I see load-balancing by geo-code do way more harm than good.

RGDS
GARY
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