On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 04:19:16PM +1200, Steve Winter wrote:
Can anyone point me in the right direction for a source of this information...or if I'm heading in the wrong direction to achieve my goal, enlighten me as to how Google manages this...
I imagine Google does this by mining the RIR whois data, which will probably give them a geographic mapping which is sufficiently accurate to be useful. If you need accurate data for billing or something, you need to define the question better: for example, the fact that one ISP will route your packets to a particular destination without taking them out of the country is no guarantee that another provider will (or that the return path will stay in-country). Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog