[Way OT] Re: Geo location to IP mapping

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> One of the geolocation thingies said my addresses were
> in Amsterdam. That's only 10,000 miles from Hawaii.
> 2500 miles more and that's exactly the opposite side of
> the planet... :wink:

Try http://www.hostip.info it is reasonable accurate in
most cases and hell it is for free. It depends what you
need it for of course but it is far better than nothing.

64.29.76.9, your mauigateway.com pops up correctly as
Honolulu. 205.166.249.10 is guessed to be somewhere random
in the US.

That's not the address space I manage. It's just my ISP.

From www.hostip.info I get " ... actually we haven't a

clue." The IP space I manage is a /15 and is in ARIN, so
it's hard to miss...

scott

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That's not the address space I manage. It's just my ISP.
From www.hostip.info I get " ... actually we haven't a
clue." The IP space I manage is a /15 and is in ARIN, so
it's hard to miss...

scott

It's not really fair to baseline the credibility of
any geo location discussion based on hostip.info.

There are much better commercial services like Quovus,
MaxMind, and Akamai.

-M<