Country designation

[Gerald Combs]

You might also want to look at the webalizer source code.  It generates
country graphs as part of its output, although at a glance it looks like
it simply maps against the information found in the IANA CCTLD list.

A while back I thought it would be a straightforward and useful thing to
put up a web database that tracks the country of origin for various IP
blocks, e.g. a PTR address that resolves to <something>.kc.rr.com is a
clue that the machine is located in the KC metro area.  Anyone know if
something like this has been implemented?

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Duston, Hal wrote:

> Bradley,
> 
> Well the one thing you could check would be the top 
> level domain.
> http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm
> Remember that these can not be taken as gospel.
> 
> You could also take the ip address to the three 
> regional nic's to see if that gives you any information.
> http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html American Registry
> http://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/whois Registry Europe
> http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl Asia Pacific
> 
> More than that, would be rather difficult.
> 
> Hal Duston
> H:hald at sound.net
> W:hdusto01 at sprintspectrum.com
> 
> Bradley Miller [bradmiller at dslonramp.com] wrote
> >
> > Is there any way to determine a contry origin for a 
> > web surfer?   I'm just curious here -- if anyone has 
> > suggestions, please share with me.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > -- Bradley Miller
> > 
>