RE: Geoip lookup

2013-05-26 Thread Frank Bulk (iname.com)
Here's a few more resources: http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/ http://www.nirsoft.net/countryip/ Frank -Original Message- From: shawn wilson [mailto:ag4ve...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 11:27 PM To: i...@cymru.com Cc: North American Network Operators Group Subject: Re: Geoip

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-25 Thread John Curran
On May 24, 2013, at 10:47 AM, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: I replied privately to Owen, but might as well share: On May 23, 2013, at 11:57 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: True, according to (at least some of) the RIRs they reside in regions... Really? Which ones? I

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-25 Thread shawn wilson
If anyone is interrested, here's a little Perl CLI util to lookup what countries registered networks within a block. There's no documentation yet, it's a .pl where it should probably be a command with a makefile installer, and Net::CIDR overlaps Net::IP. At any rate, hopefully it is useful to

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread David Conrad
On May 23, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Andreas Larsen andreas.lar...@ip-only.se wrote: The whole idea of Geoip is flawed. Sure, but pragmatically, it's an 80% solution. IP dosen't reside in countries, True, according to (at least some of) the RIRs they reside in regions... Regards, -drc

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread Andreas Larsen
If we continue to support and build tools around this geolocation based ip-dravel, we give people a false notion that this is something we should do. Identify users with some other means that Geoip Couple of things comes to mind. * normal postage mail that they have to collect at their home and

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On May 23, 2013, at 23:17 , David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: On May 23, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Andreas Larsen andreas.lar...@ip-only.se wrote: The whole idea of Geoip is flawed. Sure, but pragmatically, it's an 80% solution. IP dosen't reside in countries, True, according to (at

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread bmanning
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:39:12PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: On May 23, 2013, at 23:17 , David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: On May 23, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Andreas Larsen andreas.lar...@ip-only.se wrote: The whole idea of Geoip is flawed. Sure, but pragmatically, it's an 80%

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On May 23, 2013, at 23:49 , bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:39:12PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: On May 23, 2013, at 23:17 , David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: On May 23, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Andreas Larsen andreas.lar...@ip-only.se wrote: The whole

RE: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread Paul Kelly :: Blacknight
Just because I have operations in one region does not preclude me from having operations in other regions. YMMV of course. /bill That was exactly my point, Bill... If you have operations in RIPE and ARIN regions, it is entirely possible for you to obtain addresses from RIPE

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-05-24 02:57, Owen DeLong wrote: That was exactly my point, Bill... If you have operations in RIPE and ARIN regions, it is entirely possible for you to obtain addresses from RIPE or ARIN and use them in both locations, or, obtain addresses from both RIPE and ARIN and use them in their

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread shawn wilson
I knew this would come up. Actually I'm surprised and glad it waited until I got a solution first. I'll address a few points: - this is mainly to stop stupid things from sending packets from countries we will probably never want to do business with (I'm looking mainly at that big country under

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread John Curran
On May 24, 2013, at 2:34 AM, Andreas Larsen andreas.lar...@ip-only.se wrote: If we continue to support and build tools around this geolocation based ip-dravel, we give people a false notion that this is something we should do. ... Or just get rid of the whole idea and realize that the

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread David Conrad
I replied privately to Owen, but might as well share: On May 23, 2013, at 11:57 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: True, according to (at least some of) the RIRs they reside in regions... Really? Which ones? I thought they were only issued to organizations that had operations in regions.

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On May 24, 2013, at 00:28 , Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: On 13-05-24 02:57, Owen DeLong wrote: That was exactly my point, Bill... If you have operations in RIPE and ARIN regions, it is entirely possible for you to obtain addresses from RIPE or ARIN and use them

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On May 24, 2013, at 01:13 , shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: I knew this would come up. Actually I'm surprised and glad it waited until I got a solution first. I'll address a few points: - this is mainly to stop stupid things from sending packets from countries we will probably

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread Barry Shein
You're thinking like an engineer. Think like a marketer. They expect less than 1% response on paper mail advertising. Now, compare and contrast your idea of a reasonable confidence level and theirs. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com |

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread Tom Vest
On May 24, 2013, at 3:27 AM, Paul Kelly :: Blacknight wrote: Just because I have operations in one region does not preclude me from having operations in other regions. YMMV of course. /bill That was exactly my point, Bill... If you have operations in RIPE and ARIN regions,

Geoip lookup

2013-05-23 Thread shawn wilson
What's the best way to find the networks in a country? I was thinking of writing some perl with Net::Whois::ARIN or some such module and loop through the block. But I think I'll have to be smarter than just a simple loop not to get blocked and I figure I'm not the first to want to do this. I've

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-23 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-05-23, at 15:47, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best way to find the networks in a country? I was thinking of writing some perl with Net::Whois::ARIN or some such module and loop through the block. But I think I'll have to be smarter than just a simple loop not to

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: On 2013-05-23, at 15:47, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best way to find the networks in a country? I was thinking of writing some perl with Net::Whois::ARIN or some such module and loop through the

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:40 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: On 2013-05-23, at 15:47, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: ftp://ftp.apnic.net/public/apnic/stats/apnic/ ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-23 Thread chip
I've used the MaxMind Lite geo-ip database plus some perl modules and a BGP table to get something fairly close. Anything in the BGP table that was larger than a /20 I split into /20's. For my use case, this was close enough. I then grabbed 30 or so IP's within the range and geo-ip mapped them.

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-23 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-05-23, at 16:56, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: It looks you're right and everyone does have the same data in historical format. Looks like RIPE has everything compiled into what is current. So if a block hasn't changed for 10 years, it'll be in the RIPE dataset vs with the

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: On 2013-05-23, at 16:56, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: It looks you're right and everyone does have the same data in historical format. Looks like RIPE has everything compiled into what is current. So if a block

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-23 Thread Rob Seastrom
This may be just a case of getting what you pay for, but Maxmind marks entire netblocks as proxies, puts 'em in the wrong country, and ignores repeated efforts by the registrant of the address space to set the record straight. The problem comes when people actually do stuff with the information,

Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-23 Thread Andreas Larsen
The whole idea of Geoip is flawed. IP dosen't reside in countries, they are routable adresses that can reside everywhere, I guess soon on mars even. Med vänlig hälsning Andreas Larsen IP-Only Telecommunication AB| Postadress: 753 81 UPPSALA | Besöksadress: S:t Persgatan 6, Uppsala | Telefon: