Hi Stephen, > Do people who know about this subject think this is an accurate > characterisation? What (type of, or specific) solution or solutions would > people like to see in analog?
First I'd like to say that I agree 100% on the relative accuracy that one can get from these databases today and, have found many errors in them myself. On the other hand, reverse dns lookup is at least, as bad as IP to location databases when used to guess geographic location. So many IP addresses don't have correctly configured PTR records. Then, top level domains supposedly point to U.S. locations but not always. Still, reverse dns can take forever to complete especially when querying thru a not-so-fast Internet connection. About licenses and alternative (i.e. free, open) data sources, some people are already working on them and may eventually become in the most reliable, complete and updated IP to location databases. For example: http://ip.ludost.net/ IMO, it's surely a trade off between price, availability, commercial licenses and information quality, but it would be great to allow Analog to use all geographic data sources as they become available. Regards +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
