On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 07:49:59PM +0000, Paul Wade wrote: > http://www.geoiptool.com/ > > ... which gets my country okay, but puts my city as Rugby, 187 km as the crow > flies from where I am. > > That's a long way and a totally different region in the UK, although better > than nothing I suppose!
That's because that tool only uses the first level ARIN/RIPE and similar allocations and isn't smart/ambitious enough to traverse down in to any referral servers... or so it would appear. Similarly, my IP is listed a good 30 or 40 miles (48 or 64KM) away. -- Russell M. Van Tassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Quick to judge, Quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand." - N. Peart +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
