"J. Dow" wrote:
>
> From: "Andrew Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Basically, the question is:
> > Has someone written something that gets
> > info from ARIN, APNIC & RIPE and
> > can correctly identify the country an
> > IP address comes from?
>
> I think you'd have to run the traceroute and parse what it returns to make
> that kind of guess. Between the results of "host", "traceroute", and "whois"
> (and the various country "root-zone Whois index by TLD" lookups) you should
> be able to get a pretty good indication.
>
> If you build the traceroutes and then use an AWK script to "compress" the
> data it should be possible to build a GUI tool that will present the data
> and allow you to click on the critical information and work from there in
> a "semi-automated" manner. That said there should be a way to find out
> what general physical location hosts 199.50.45.77, for example. But I doubt
> even IANA has a clue when you get down to it. Nobody has really "mapped out"
> the entire internet that I know of. It would be an interesting exercise to
Doesn't xtraceroute have a partial database?
It's probably out of date, but a starting point.
And you can edit the database as you go, so
you get it more up-to-date ever time you use it :)
-Thomas
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