On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:10:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a more accurate method to determine the country of origin for an > > > > > IP than the methods I've described above? > > > > > > Yes, at least three companies have databases of pretty much all /24s and > > > above mapped up to a zip code. > > > > So far I've been referred to 3 commercial services, and all (including > > NetGeo/Ixia) fail on the example I gave (194.196.100.86).
The Akamai EdgeScape service is correct for 194.196.100.86. > Maybe I missed those posts, sorry. > > I am not aware of any commercial service tht has a /32s in its databases. > Neither am I aware of any of the companies that have the data providing the > service of 'lookup the location'. It is incorporated into the other services > that they provide and are used for internal purposes. I'm not sure how far Akamai goes in its database. I do know for a fact that there are entries more specific than /24s in its database.