Re: looking for hostname geographic hint validation

2013-09-03 Thread Ben
Dear Bradley, So basically you're asking others to do your homework for you ? The only useful purpose your list serves is to demonstrate why people shouldn't try to build fancy algorithms that rely on an entirely unreliable datasource. All you end up with are hacked together algorithms

Re: looking for hostname geographic hint validation

2013-08-30 Thread tabris
On 08/27/2013 12:33 PM, Bradley Huffaker wrote: We are currently working on an algorithm that automatically detects geographic hints inside of hostnames. At this point we are seeking operators who can validate some of our inferences. Please contact me if you can valid one of the inferences

Re: looking for hostname geographic hint validation

2013-08-30 Thread Matthew Petach
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:35 PM, tabris tab...@tabris.net wrote: On 08/27/2013 12:33 PM, Bradley Huffaker wrote: We are currently working on an algorithm that automatically detects geographic hints inside of hostnames. At this point we are seeking operators who can validate some of our

Re: looking for hostname geographic hint validation

2013-08-30 Thread Bradley Huffaker
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 02:45:09PM -0700, Matthew Petach wrote: Hitting 93% accuracy is actually pretty mindblowing from my perspective, given how random some of the naming choices are. ^_^; This is the number of times we think we have an answer and it is wrong. It does not include the

Re: looking for hostname geographic hint validation

2013-08-30 Thread Matthew Petach
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Bradley Huffaker bhuff...@caida.orgwrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 02:45:09PM -0700, Matthew Petach wrote: Hitting 93% accuracy is actually pretty mindblowing from my perspective, given how random some of the naming choices are. ^_^; This is the number of

Re: looking for hostname geographic hint validation

2013-08-28 Thread Bradley Huffaker
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 04:07:05PM +0100, Ben wrote: Dear Bradley, So basically you're asking others to do your homework for you ? ;-) Actually no, I'm asking people to do something which I can not. While it is true I could test against a manual inference, I would simply be checking one

looking for hostname geographic hint validation

2013-08-27 Thread Bradley Huffaker
We are currently working on an algorithm that automatically detects geographic hints inside of hostnames. At this point we are seeking operators who can validate some of our inferences. Please contact me if you can valid one of the inferences below or can provide us with one we have missed.