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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 02/24/07 14:58
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Jim Moe
<jmm-list.AXSPAMGN@sohnen-moe.com> writing in
news:jrSdnTj0P_el3kPYnZ2dnUVZ_qarnZ2d@giganews.com:
> 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.
>
I'm sure it's similar to the way telephone numbers used to be assigned
in the United States. For example, BUtterfield (28) was the name of a
ritzy exchange in Manhattan and CRestview (27), in Beverly Hills. If
you know the three digit prefix, you knew where someone lived. There are
too many phone numbers to do that now, especially in Los Angeles.
--
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