Of course if everyone had DNS entries like this..
zeta IN A 207.168.xxx.xxx
IN LOC 45 14 00.000 S 132 55 000 E
1.00m 10000
But naturally enough Microsoft DNS does not support this ;-)
John
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> Sent: Sunday, 5 August 2001 3:29 PM
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> Subject: Re: [OT] Discovering physical locations Was: Re: Code Red
>
>
> From: "Andrew Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Basically, the question is:
> > Has someone written something that gets
> > info from ARIN, APNIC & RIPE and
> > can correctly identify the country an
> > IP address comes from?
>
> I think you'd have to run the traceroute and parse what it
> returns to make
> that kind of guess. Between the results of "host",
> "traceroute", and "whois"
> (and the various country "root-zone Whois index by TLD"
> lookups) you should
> be able to get a pretty good indication.
>
> If you build the traceroutes and then use an AWK script to
> "compress" the
> data it should be possible to build a GUI tool that will
> present the data
> and allow you to click on the critical information and work
> from there in
> a "semi-automated" manner. That said there should be a way to find out
> what general physical location hosts 199.50.45.77, for example.
> But I doubt
> even IANA has a clue when you get down to it. Nobody has really
> "mapped out"
> the entire internet that I know of. It would be an interesting
> exercise to
> get it even down to country code or city code.
>
> {^_^}
>
>
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