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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 02/23/07 11:09
Jim Moe wrote:
> 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.
Although I'm sure they do use whois, they certainly do a lot more than
that. GeoIP for instance is able to identify AOL users in different
countries with a reasonable degree of accuracy. Try doing that with whois!
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