tracing ips

[Matthew Carpenter]

Problem here is that while IP is somewhat bound to physical location,
the only registry which is central and at all accurate is only able to
break down to the superblocks.  Hexillion.com is the best I've found,
but it's still looking at the whois databases.  No major ISP's
register WHERE they handed out that class C or class B to.  The best
you're going to get is the registrar of the netblock.  Where it divides
beyond that is anyone's guess.  eg.  Company A has some Class B IP
block, which it then spreads primarily across its MAN, but then also to
its other locations throughout the world.  Traceroute will take you to
the major hops, and a lot of ISP's will place City names in the
in-addr.arpa addresses (eg. xxxx-chi-xxx.sprint..... is in Chicago,
etc...)


On Thu, 3 Oct 2002
21:38:44-0400 dep<dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:

> begin  m.w.chang's  quote:
> | I will do a search on freshmeat.net. I have seen a few replacements
> | that claimed to be better hhan the orignal traceroute.
> 
> thanks. i've done that. what i need to find is the database that has 
> the correlation between ip address and geographical location. several 
> websites offer this, but none has really resolved it.
> -- 
> dep
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