RE: autodetect mirrors

geoip looks to have information retrieved from the global WHOIS services, which truley knows which IP belong where. therefore: # whois -h whois.ripe.net 192.168.0.0 % This is the RIPE Whois server. % The objects are in RPSL format. % Please visit http://www.ripe.net/rpsl for more information. % Rights restricted by copyright. % See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html inetnum: 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 netname: IANA-CBLK-RESERVED1 descr: Class C address space for private internets descr: See http://www.ripe.net/db/rfc1918.html for details country: NL <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< admin-c: RFC1918-RIPE tech-c: RFC1918-RIPE status: ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED remarks: Country is really worldwide remarks: This network should never be routed outside an enterprise remarks: See RFC1918 for further information mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT changed: rfc1918@ripe.net 20020129 source: RIPE role: RFC1918 Role address: Singel 258 address: 1016 AB Amsterdam address: The Netherlands e-mail: rfc1918@ripe.net trouble: See http://www.ripe.net/db/rfc1918.html admin-c: RFC1918-RIPE tech-c: RFC1918-RIPE nic-hdl: RFC1918-RIPE mnt-by: RIPE-DBM-MNT changed: rfc1918@ripe.net 20020121 source: RIPE obviously that with real IP addresses, the country where the IPs were allocated to, will be listed. nonroutable networks are always listed with the country of the maintainer. - shimi. On Tue, 21 May 2002, Spyros Ioakim wrote: > Yes but I mean that since it says that those subnets belong to > Netherlands maybe the whole database of geoip isn't very reliable. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Winstead [mailto:jimw@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:11 AM > To: Spyros Ioakim > Cc: php-mirrors@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: autodetect mirrors > > > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 02:24:02AM +0300, Spyros Ioakim wrote: > > geoiplookup 192.168.0.0 > > NL > > > > and so is 192.168.1.0 192.168.2.0 and the whole > > 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 subnet.. > > so? no public internet server should ever see those addresses from a > remote machine. > > jim > -- Best regards, Shimi ---- "Outlook is a massive flaming horrid blatant security violation, which also happens to be a mail reader." "Sure UNIX is user friendly; it's just picky about who its friends are." Sign that you downloaded Linux from a bad source: "My compiler keeps hanging on NSABackdoor.h !!!"