I work on a website where we use this tool to generate graphical maps of the locations of people currently logged into a MUD. It seems to be accurate most of the time.
http://netgeo.caida.org --- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Adrian Mugnolo > Sent: 04 February 2003 05:07 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [analog-help] GeoIP and Analog > > > Hi Stephen, > > > Do people who know about this subject think this is an accurate > > characterisation? What (type of, or specific) solution or solutions > > would people like to see in analog? > > First I'd like to say that I agree 100% on the relative > accuracy that one can get from these databases today and, > have found many errors in them myself. > > On the other hand, reverse dns lookup is at least, as bad as > IP to location databases when used to guess geographic > location. So many IP addresses don't have correctly > configured PTR records. Then, top level domains supposedly > point to U.S. locations but not always. Still, reverse dns > can take forever to complete especially when querying thru a > not-so-fast Internet connection. > > About licenses and alternative (i.e. free, open) data > sources, some people are already working on them and may > eventually become in the most reliable, complete and updated > IP to location databases. For example: > http://ip.ludost.net/ IMO, it's surely a trade off between price, availability, commercial licenses and information quality, but it would be great to allow Analog to use all geographic data sources as they become available. Regards +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +- | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +- +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
