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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List)
At 6:35 PM -0400 2005-06-13, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Too bad no one has servers in 100s or even a 1000 or more ISPs in dozens of countries with TCP connections to a statistically significant portion of the Internet on a daily basis who could possibly measure, say, RTT (not sure why TTL is relevant) and other things, and perhaps use that along with other information to create a database that they could then give to customers who need geo-location data for their "mission critical" applications. That would probably be pretty darned accurate. You mean like Akamai? Of course, that would be a "commercial service".... You mean like Akamai? =) ;-) -- Brad Knowles, <[email protected]> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.
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