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Posted by Ben C on 02/23/07 08:14
On 2007-02-23, Jim Moe <jmm-list.AXSPAMGN@sohnen-moe.com> wrote:
> Jemdam.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need a real basic first guess and what country my visitors are from. Does
>> any one have a list of IP address ranges at a high level, I.E.
>>
> IP address blocks were issued sequentially on a per request basis.
> That's it. Any relationship to geographical or political locales is
> coincidental.
> I suspect the ip-to-country services do a whois lookup (or similar) to
> relate an IP to a country. There is nothing in an IP itself to do that.
There's possibly something in the DNS record, which is what xtraceroute
uses. But it never seems to work that well whenever I've tried it.
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3august/xt/
"RFC 1712 and 1876 are proposed standards for mapping
hostnames/IP-addresses to geographical locations. This has the
potential for removing a lot of the guesswork xtraceroute has to do.
RFC1876 is the one to go for."
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