29 Jun
2020
29 Jun
'20
8:21 p.m.
Peter Müller wrote on 29/06/2020 20:54:
What would you do if you need to build a database to determine the country assigned to an IP address - let's take the one assigned to it by it's owner, regardless of jurisdiction or physical location -?
There's no short or easy answer to this - if there were, there would be lots of geo-ip databases available on the internet.
You would need to distil the information from a lot of separate sources (e.g. whois databases, detailed dfz routing dumps from multiple sources, pings from beacons to test rtt, possibly dns as a fuzzy input, etc). It would be a highly labour intensive process and you would be left with large numbers of question marks.
Nick