Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-18 Thread Edward B. Dreger
w> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:39:54 -0700 (PDT) w> From: "william(at)elan.net" w> http://www.completewhois.com/statistics/data/ips-bycountry/rirstats/ See also: .zz.countries.nerd.dk IN A lookups return 127.0.x.x, where x.x is a two-octet representation of the ISO 3166 numeric country

Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
As for the 'pretty hard work' part; they seem to be making money off it; how's your gig going? I primarily make money from consulting and other work not from ISP services which I have not promoted from 2002. Not sure that's a fair comparison, since I didn't think William is doing this for

Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Matt Ghali wrote: The point is it probably would not be as accurate as one could hope because internet network infrastructure is network-centric and not necessarily region-based. Of course you could try to fully map INET like CAIDA does and keep the info updated on "da

Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jun 13, 2005, at 6:53 PM, Matt Ghali wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote: The point is it probably would not be as accurate as one could hope because internet network infrastructure is network-centric and not necessarily region-based. Of course you could try to full

Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread Matt Ghali
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote: The point is it probably would not be as accurate as one could hope because internet network infrastructure is network-centric and not necessarily region-based. Of course you could try to fully map INET like CAIDA does and keep the info

Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
Too bad no one has servers in 100s or even a 1000 or more ISPs in dozens of countries with TCP connections to a statistically significant portion of the Internet on a daily basis who could possibly measure, say, RTT (not sure why TTL is relevant) and other things, and perhaps use that along

Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:35 PM -0400 2005-06-13, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Too bad no one has servers in 100s or even a 1000 or more ISPs in dozens of countries with TCP connections to a statistically significant portion of the Internet on a daily basis who could possibly measure, say, RTT (not sure why TTL is

Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jun 13, 2005, at 2:55 PM, william(at)elan.net wrote: Commercial service when there are several free ones available BTW - based on what I can see they are not updating data once per day but only once/month. Also having some experience in this matter I highly doubt that its much more

Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Hank Nussbacher wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote: I suspect your completewhois does not take into account ERX data: http://www.ripe.net/projects/erx/ Huge swaths of IP space were moved around between RIRs from Jan 2003-Apr 2005: http://www.ripe.net/pr

Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: "william(at)elan.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim McBurnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 2:55 PM Subject: RE: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List) > > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Jim

RE: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
e ago but have not kept updated data as far as I know). -Original Message- From: william(at)elan.net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 1:40 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List) On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Daniel Senie wrote: h

Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote: I suspect your completewhois does not take into account ERX data: http://www.ripe.net/projects/erx/ Huge swaths of IP space were moved around between RIRs from Jan 2003-Apr 2005: http://www.ripe.net/projects/erx/erx-ip/completed.html If you want sp

RE: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread Jim McBurnett
I'm sure that this made it here before but: www.analysespider.com/ip2country/ip_country.html Later, J -Original Message- From: william(at)elan.net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 1:40 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contac

Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote: You can now do lookup in RBL style to .country-rirdata.dnsiplists.completewhois.com For TXT lookups it will tell you country code and country name, i.e. "US - United States". For RBL "A" lookups it will answer with 127.0.a.b where a and b are as

IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)

2005-06-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Daniel Senie wrote: had wrong info or no info. If you're the ISP, then your answer to your customers is "the web site you are going to is using an unreliable method to attempt to determine locality from IP address." Then point them at the web site's contact form and s