From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: location@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: [db-wg] Question regarding delta between
 "delegated-ripencc-extended-latest" and Whois output
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:21:48 +0100
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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

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