On 26/2/02 22:09, "Rzac`" <bugtrackat_private> wrote: > > On 26/Feb/2002, Glenn Forbes Flemin Larratt wrote: > GFFL> It may have been the theory that IP ranges were geographically > GFFL> organized, but that's long since gone the way of all things. > GFFL> (...) > > Indeed, I have a client of mine here in Europe using part of an IP > address block allocated to its American mother company that is listed > on ARIN. Looking up the IP address on the registries would let you > think it is US-based, which is wrong. Ips are geographically organised by Regional Internet Registry. Doing a query on the approiate whois database would give you a (say 85%?) fairly accurate geographical lookup. Cheers, Mally Mclane RIPE NCC Operations Sent using the Entourage X Test Drive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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