> On Apr 11, 2016, at 10:11 AM, Hugo Slabbert <h...@slabnet.com> wrote: > > > On Mon 2016-Apr-11 13:02:14 -0400, Ken Chase <m...@sizone.org> wrote: > >> TL;DR: GeoIP put unknown IP location mappings to the 'center of the country' >> but then rounded off the lat long so it points at this farm. >> >> Cant believe law enforcement is using this kind of info to execute searches. >> Wouldnt that undermine the credibility of any evidence brought up in trials >> for any geoip locates? >> >> Seems to me locating unknowns somewhere in the middle of a big lake or park >> in >> the center of the country might be a better idea. > > ...how about actually marking an unknown as...oh, I dunno: "unknown"? Is > there no analogue in the GeoIP lookups for a 404?
It's not unknown - it's (according to the DB, anyway, which has a bunch of flaws) "in the US somewhere". The problem with MaxMind (and other geoip databases I've seen that do Lat/Long as well as Country / State / Town) is that the data doesn't include uncertainty, so it returns "38.0/-97.0" rather than "somewhere in a 3000 mile radius circle centered on 38.0/-97.0". Someone should show them RFC 1876 as an example of better practice. Cheers, Steve
