Re: Re: Net_Geo Bug: Re: Bug #10 [Opn->Asn]: fsockopen is using old pass-by-reference

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 12:42:01AM -0300, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > On 09/28/2003 05:41 PM, Graeme Merrall wrote: > >CAIDA is now publicly saying don't trust our database anymore because it's > >old so I may consider plugging in the IP to Country stuff that php.net uses > >as well. > > That is not exactly what they are saying. They say: > > Please be warned that NetGeo may give wildly incorrect results, > especially for recently allocated or re-assigned IP addresses. > > This means that they do not guarantee that the database is synchronized > without delay. AFAIK, this is a problem with all IP location resolution > services because there are always delays in updating IP range databases. > You omitted the preceeding sentence which states: "NetGeo has not been actively maintained for _several years_, and this will probably not change in the the foreseeable future" (italics theirs). That's what I based my statement on. I'll admit that it's difficult to determine from that whether updates go in delayed or not at all but my interpretation is for the latter. Cheers, Graeme