Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Stewart
On 5/11/06, Robert Bonomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we can coral them in it and legislate to have no porn anywhere > else than on .xxx ... should fix the issue for the prudes out there. And _that_ is *precisely* "why not". There have been at least three generations of proposals for

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-15 Thread Simon Waters
On Friday 12 May 2006 23:47, Barry Shein wrote: > > > The namespace *was* flat, once. That didn't scale, and not just > > because of technical limitations -- the fact that there are only so > > many useful combinations of 26 letters in a relatively short name had > > some weight in there too.

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-15 Thread Michael . Dillon
> > But there's no technical advantage of a hierarchical system over a > > simple hashing scheme, they're basically isomorphic other than a hash > > system can more easily be tuned to a particular distribution goal. > > Amazing how many experienced people seem to be saying this isn't possible,

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Dambier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there's no technical advantage of a hierarchical system over a simple hashing scheme, they're basically isomorphic other than a hash system can more easily be tuned to a particular distribution goal. Amazing how many experienced people seem to be saying this isn't

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-15 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Dambier) [Mon 15 May 2006, 11:11 CEST]: Both Rendezvous and Bonjour are working. They are the same thing. Rendezvous got renamed Bonjour after a trademark dispute. See http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=891 There is an incompatible version from Microsof

Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Ashe Canvar
Hi all, Can any of you please recommend some IP-to-geo mapping database / web service ? I would like to get resolution down to city if possible. Thanks and Regards, -ashe

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Alain Hebert
GeoIP - http://www.maxmind.com/geoip/ Ashe Canvar wrote: Hi all, Can any of you please recommend some IP-to-geo mapping database / web service ? I would like to get resolution down to city if possible. Thanks and Regards, -ashe -- Alain Hebert[EMAIL PR

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Edward B. DREGER
AC> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:35:47 -0700 AC> From: Ashe Canvar AC> Can any of you please recommend some IP-to-geo mapping database / web AC> service ? AC> AC> I would like to get resolution down to city if possible. Many people would. Don't hope for much better than country granularity -- and

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Todd Vierling
On 5/15/06, Ashe Canvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Can any of you please recommend some IP-to-geo mapping database / web service ? I would like to get resolution down to city if possible. The gold standard is MaxMind GeoIP. http://www.maxmind.com/ There are a couple "free" ones I'v

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Brian Wallingford
scam_snake_oil_etc On Mon, 15 May 2006, Alain Hebert wrote: : :GeoIP - http://www.maxmind.com/geoip/ : :Ashe Canvar wrote: : :> :> Hi all, :> :> Can any of you please recommend some IP-to-geo mapping database / web :> service ? :> :> I would like to get resolution down to city if possible. :>

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 12:49 PM 5/15/2006, Brian Wallingford wrote: scam_snake_oil_etc How so? -M< -- Martin Hannigan(c) 617-388-2663 Renesys Corporation(w) 617-395-8574 Member of Technical Staff Network Operations

RE: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Frank Bulk
Quova seems to be the premier service: http://www.quova.com/ I read a story on them some time ago and I was left with the impression that all the other players are rookies, but then again, you probably will pay heavily for this service. Geobytes is another one I've played with. We're a small I

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Brian Wallingford
I'm not quite comfortable with the idea of building a market audience based on data with at best dubious accuracy. On Mon, 15 May 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote: :At 12:49 PM 5/15/2006, Brian Wallingford wrote: : :> scam_snake_oil_etc : : :How so?

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Nash
It works for spammers. - billn On Mon, 15 May 2006, Brian Wallingford wrote: I'm not quite comfortable with the idea of building a market audience based on data with at best dubious accuracy. On Mon, 15 May 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote: :At 12:49 PM 5/15/2006, Brian Wallingford wrote: : :>

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Ashe Canvar
Thanks for all your replies. I came across http://www.hostip.info/use.html, which looks good, at least from a API/ ease of use prespective. So how would the illustrious people on nanog solve the folowing issue: + PHB walks into my office and asks for a global distribution of my 500K customers.

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Alain Hebert
Well, I'm sure that everybodies here understand that the city databases cannot be accurate more than 50%. The way we disperse static IP on commercial accounts there is not way they can figure out where the destination is. The last best guest will be the peer router before my ro

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Kevin Pawloski
IP location services are a niche service, they won't work in the broad sense of things. Sites that need to make lawyers happy, such as MLB.com will work well with IP location services. MLB.Com basically says they won't broadcast Dodger home games in the LA area on their website. (Or any team in the

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 15 May 2006 13:14:41 EDT, Bill Nash said: > It works for spammers. Certainly explains all the Turkish spam I get, what with me being just outside Ankara and all. pgpEfHJbvAwB0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 01:56 PM 5/15/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 13:14:41 EDT, Bill Nash said: > It works for spammers. Certainly explains all the Turkish spam I get, what with me being just outside Ankara and all. That's likely because they are attempting to do some sort of location an

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Roland Perry
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ashe Canvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Thanks for all your replies. I came across http://www.hostip.info/use.html, which looks good, at least from a API/ ease of use prespective. I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I really am. That's quite a

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 03:56 PM 5/15/2006, Alexander Harrowell wrote: This is a frequent source of silly news stories - viz. the recent one, based on Google Trends, that Birmingham (UK) is the "top city" for porn searches and Brentford (UK) in the top five despite being a small suburb of London. Reason: both are

AW: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Gunther Stammwitz
Hostip.info is so bad... One can find the exact location of my ip in the ripe-database and the tool doesn't get it. It claimed that I'm in some sort of 100souls small town altough I'm living in a major city. And hey: I was using an ip out of a hoster's block - not a dialup or something like that.

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread sgorman1
The NSA was granted a patent for an IP geo-location technology based on triangulation using latency measures. We played around with a similar approach using UDP several years ago and you could triangulate to the zip code level or so. A better way I think than the current approaches being dis

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Alain Hebert
Yeap, I'm moron. You didn't know it yet? - Come on... "The way we disperse static IP" ain't imagination, its fact... We spread a /20 on dynamic dialup and dsl over 2 provinces and since most of the residential services is build like this you cannot get a read of where that

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Martin Hannigan
At 05:36 PM 5/15/2006, Alain Hebert wrote: Yeap, I'm moron. You didn't know it yet? I already mentioned the NTP thread. Let's not relive it. There are some facts: 1. Geo location is a real application 2. There are multiple methods for obtaining the location (accuracy varies) 3. I

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Edward B. DREGER
RP> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 21:05:35 +0100 RP> From: Roland Perry RP> I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I really am. That's RP> quite a long way out in a small country like England. Home cable returned "haven't got a clue". I tried a couple other netblocks that returned diffe

network triangulation (Re: Geo location to IP mapping)

2006-05-15 Thread Edward B. DREGER
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:24:48 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The NSA was granted a patent for an IP geo-location technology based on triangulation using latency measures. It could probably be foiled by this patented technology: http://www.tinyurl.com/ebu6t which is equally reliab

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Edward B. DREGER
AH> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:24:13 +0100 AH> From: Alexander Harrowell AH> [W]hen the path is [...] it won't be quite that clear. Exactly. It's a bit different than triangulating cell towers based on signal strength. Since when does the NSA patent things, anyhow? I'd think they would keep se

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Kevin Day
On May 15, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Alain Hebert wrote: Yeap, I'm moron. You didn't know it yet? - Come on... "The way we disperse static IP" ain't imagination, its fact... We spread a /20 on dynamic dialup and dsl over 2 provinces and since most of the residential services

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Nash
Google's available geolocation resources are much more direct: They can get the information directly from the user. Google mail users setting location information, google home page users setting weatherbug details, common location searches in google maps, or local business directory searches

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 15 17:42:13 2006 > From: Kevin Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Geo location to IP mapping > Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:40:23 -0500 > > We use a Geo/IP location database. It's surprisingly accurate, with a > few exceptions. > [[ sneck ]] > > Comparing the

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Alain Hebert
Hi, (In a more precise manner) I originaly stated that below country (aka, province/state, city, zip, etc) it wont be very reliable because in my experience we spread that /20 without the hierarchy you expect. Meaning: . We have subnets on LanEx going outside the city, province/st

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
I seriously doubt this would work to better than the regional area. My zip code (20124) region is about 5 km across, which would be 15 microseconds in vacuum, and maybe at most 50 micro seconds in glass. So, you would need accuracies at the 10's of microsecond level to specify zip codes. I

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 15 May 2006 21:49:31 -0400, Marshall Eubanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I seriously doubt this would work to better than the regional area. > > My zip code (20124) region is about 5 km across, which would be 15 > microseconds in vacuum, and > maybe at most 50 micro seconds in glas

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Roland Perry wrote: > > http://www.hostip.info/use.html, which looks good, at least from a > > API/ ease of use prespective. > > I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I really am. That's > quite a long way out in a small country like E

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Petri Helenius
Edward B. DREGER wrote: Since when does the NSA patent things, anyhow? I'd think they would keep secret anything that's actually effective. They are handing out "technology transfer program" leaflets in tradeshows now. Pete

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-15 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 10:55 PM 15-05-06 -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006, Roland Perry wrote: > > http://www.hostip.info/use.html, which looks good, at least from a > > API/ ease of use prespective. > > I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I really am. That's