Re[2]: Determining the country of orgin for IP address(es)

From: Rzac` (bugtrack@mail.ru)
Date: 02/26/02 

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:09:39 +0100
From: Rzac` <bugtrack@mail.ru>
To: incidents@securityfocus.com

On 26/Feb/2002, Glenn Forbes Flemin Larratt wrote:
GFFL> It may have been the theory that IP ranges were geographically
GFFL> organized, but that's long since gone the way of all things.
GFFL> (...)

Indeed, I have a client of mine here in Europe using part of an IP
address block allocated to its American mother company that is listed
on ARIN. Looking up the IP address on the registries would let you
think it is US-based, which is wrong.

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