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Re: IPv4 country of origin

  • From: alex
  • Date: Fri Oct 04 08:08:45 2002 
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > cruniching the data that says "Of 10 sites that I saw this IP address access
> > and provide a clearing for the credit card transaction, 9 ended up being
> > within 3 miles radius of ZZZZ. Lets put a tag on that"
> 
> I would be REALLY interested to know how you measure mileage with IP.
> 
> I tried 6 IPs with one of these locator services and one was off by over
> 2,000 miles, one by 150 miles and 2 by 10 miles.

Again, majority of companies that have that data will not provide it to you
for free. In a case of someone like Amazon, they probably wont measure
mileage. Rather whey would flag transactions that make no geographic sense
and pull them for separate processing.

ALex