[analog-help] Re: GeoIP Patch for Analog

[Russell Van Tassell]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 07:49:59PM +0000, Paul Wade wrote:
> http://www.geoiptool.com/ 
> 
> ... which gets my country okay, but puts my city as Rugby, 187 km as the crow 
> flies from where I am.
> 
> That's a long way and a totally different region in the UK, although better 
> than nothing I suppose!

That's because that tool only uses the first level ARIN/RIPE and similar
allocations and isn't smart/ambitious enough to traverse down in to any
referral servers... or so it would appear.  Similarly, my IP is listed a
good 30 or 40 miles (48 or 64KM) away.

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Russell M. Van Tassell
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