RE: autodetect mirrors

I think that the RIPE whois simply assigns NL to the ip blocks over which it has no authority, try the following blocks from our network in Mexico: whois -h whois.ripe.net 148.245.15.0 whois -h whois.ripe.net 200.36.127.0 or this IP from www.mit.edu: whois -h whois.ripe.net 18.181.0.31 Perhaps some of the geoip entries were looked up in the wrong whois. I think the mirror system should rely on standard DNS and (only if GeoIP is installed in the mirror), look up unresolved IP addresses and names ending in .com .net,.org and such (or to be more precise, hostnames that have a TLD bigger than two letters or ending in .tv ) Adolfo Garcia Urbano/uServers At 10:36 5/21/2002 +0300, you wrote:

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

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