At 12:47 PM 9/11/00 -0400, you wrote:
>It is my understanding that IP is not really a reliable indicator of
>location anyway, particularly for dial-up users. Even if you do manage to
>figure out the location for a given IP, the odds are pretty good that the
>location will be incorrect. For example anyone who uses AOL to connect will
>be assigned an IP that places them in Virginia (because that is where the
>gateway is), regardless of where they are actually located.
>
I know for a fact the ip address can be meaningless; In an application at my
employer we had to do a rapid recode when we discovered the IP address was the
address of an intermediate node, not the node on which the browser was
executing.
We were using the address as part of a key to session data stored in a
database;
We gave up on the address.
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