RE: [MLUG] Useful online tool.

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

That would be difficult to keep up and maintain. I think they pull
location information from whois or the RADB.


Shannon Spurling
WAN Engineer -Specialist

MOREnet, Network Services, Core Network
3212 LeMone Industrial Blvd.
Columbia, MO 65201

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Subject: Re: [MLUG] Useful online tool.

Spurling, Shannon wrote:

> I am not sure where they get their location information. I have found
it
> to be incorrect in a couple of instances, and IP addresses are
> geographically independent. So, there is no particular data tied to an
> IP address, other than the address of the company to which it was
> assigned, that would give an address or location for an IP address. 
> 
> 
> Shannon Spurling
Me either...it correctly reports one of addresses, 65.240.141.160 as 
being in Columbia, MO, but even a traceroute only gives KC as a closest 
obvious hop except for "carfax1-gw.customer.alter.net" which would 
almost have to be entry specific.

Perhaps a database of each provider's backbone and border routers?
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