RE: [PHP] IP and countries -- Discussion Continues

OK, follow me: I am in Japan, we have AT&T, GOL, etc ... AT&T uses .ne.jp as their DNS, while GOL .com in your way you would assume that the Japanese dude ( GOL.com ) who doesn't even speak English came to me from the United States of America. Over 30% of ISPs in this world are using whether .com or .net for their DNS and for their domain names in general. This is due some laws that limit your possibilities on using country's domain names. Why does GOL use .com? Very simple: Because GOL is owned by Exodus and Exodus is a registered company within Japan (many other countries as well) Japanese Law says: a domain name can be obtained ONLY by companies and ONLY ONE per COMPANY... Means that Sony can have sony.co.jp but cannot own vaio.co.jp, or sony-computers.co.jp, or sony-tv.co.jp,,, They in fact use subdomains... This is why I need to know the PHYSICAL address of WHO the IP belongs to and WHERE. Read Japaninc Magazine, we are covering this issue. www.japaninc.com ( even here: japaninc.com is not japaninc.co.jp because we still belong to our parent company which is LincMedia.CO.JP ) It is terrible, I know, I have 96 domain names personally and a company in JAPAN has no right to buy more then one ... Gezz... But this is how it works in here AND NOT ONLY HERE (Japan), dozens of other countries are like this... Cheers! Maxim Maletsky -----Original Message----- From: WILSON, Nick [mailto:nick.a.wilson@baesystems.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 12:56 PM To: Maxim Maletsky; 'Duncan Hill'; Jordi Amorós Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] IP and countries -- Discussion Continues If I log using the REMOTE_ADDR and resolving the address to a name, ie gethostbyaddr($REMOTE_ADDR) it gives me the remote name of each user, which usually includes a country, ie dm1-39.triode.net.au myangup0.connect.com.au tycho-165-227-58-95.tychonet.com etc etc Which to me would indicate country, ie Aus, Aus and USA ?? Is there more to this that I am missing ? Sure it may be possible for someone to log on to a remote server in a remote country and then issue a request for a web page, but the majority of people simply dial in and then surf, hence their ISP is the normal point of contact ? > -----Original Message----- > From: Maxim Maletsky [mailto:maxim.maletsky@japaninc.net] > Sent: Wednesday, 8 November 2000 14:02 > To: 'Duncan Hill'; Jordi Amorós > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] IP and countries -- Discussion Continues > > > Hello, > > Me too, I was always asking this question myself; > > Let's say I have visitor's IP which I add to the database; > In the feature I want to find out where did the guy came from. > > Just resolving it's DNS will give me the domain name which > doesn't indicate > the country/continent at all... > > No, how can I "ping" his country? > > Is there a good way to find out a country by, maybe, > searching whois (or > anything else like whois, nic, apnic, whatever: the question > is right here) > for the IP and then knowing the format parse the output with > RegEx finding > the country's code. Now logically the country code is the one > submitted by > the IP owner as a part of _physical_ address. > > In this way the result could be very precise. > > > > > Is there any simpler way to do what I just tried to explain? > What is the best way to do that? > Who did it already? > Any services do that? > Any tutorials on this? > Any ideas of you gurus? > > > Regards, > Maxim Maletsky. > > > ========== > Original Discussion > ========== > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Hill [mailto:dhill@bajan.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 2:20 AM > To: Jordi Amorós > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] IP and countries > > > On 2000-11-07, Jordi Amorós did say, > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to know how can I get the countrie's range of IP. > > You'd have to start querying arin.net, ripe.net and apnic.net to name > a few. > > -- > > Sapere aude > My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net