On 18/10/12 00:11, Alison M. Wheeler wrote:
Truth.
I just checked
wherehttp://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ believes my (fixed) IP addresses
are. "Truro" is the response! (I'm actually just north of London).
Geolocation has been something of an interest of mine for a few years and whilst
sub-country details can be good in, for example, the USA, it is poor to useless in the UK
(and thus something I am working on improving). Some GeoIP services are more accurate for
me. IPv6, btw, will make the issue more difficult initially, primarily because of the use
of tunneling.
AlisonW
Indeed. I once suggested the multicast (Class D IP addressing) might
help with issuing geonotices. But I am told that multicast is not longer
tied to geographic location, or location as measured by TTL (time to
live) or hops in the network.
Gordo