A note to the exorcists

budge budge at el-pleasant.org
Thu Nov 22 19:55:20 PST 2001


On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 at 6:28pm ravi wrote:
>
> hakki: try http://www.arin.net/ for IP lookups. there
> are billion dollar companies in existence today that
> claim to predict your geographic location based on your
> IP address but they are not very accurate

Exactly. I almost mentioned that in my original post.


> (anything beyond continental accuracy cannot be
> guaranteed, at least for an end-user without access to
> additional network information).

Not even that is guaranteed. I have a cow-orker who's sister in law works for an arabian bank in its NYC office. Their address space was allocated by RIPE (european equivalent of ARIN), registered to a Saudi postal address, and physically exists in NY.


> second, to determine your IP address from your messages
> is not possible in some cases and not foolproof in all
> cases.

heh. you have a flair for understatement.

-- no Onan

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