On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Julian Elischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > A recent addition to our armory is the geoip program that, given an > address can tell you what country it is in and given a country code, can > give an ipfw table that describes all the ip addresses in that country. > > I look forward to getting acquainted with the new features, but I have an observation - a database of networks by country is not invariably a geographic database. If you were to look at IP allocations in the Caribbean, or other overseas territories of the Netherlands, France, etc. you'd see what I mean. There's even a bit of FR in North America, Saint-Pierre & Miquelon. It works pretty well for excluding North Korea, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, etc. but can sometimes be confusing. -- "Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred." - The Mahābhārata _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ipfw To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
