[Geowanking] Open Source IP Locator With City Precision

[Nigel Wetters]

>>> vincent at up4.com 08/18/03 09:46pm >>>
> Except, only, if I could find a free database of all the cities, by 
> country, somewhere. Do you know of anything like that?

Yes, that's probably a sensible thing to do. Someone on this list will probably know of such a list. Anyone? ... Bueller? ... Bueller?

> As for the use of it, well, I tested AntiOnline, and it has enough 
> reliability to make it useable in pretty much any geo related BI 

No it doesn't. The following IP address hasn't been updated since 2001, but is wrong.

http://www.antionline.com/tools-and-toys/ip-locate/index.php?address=194.80.228.29

It looks like the database isn't updated regularly, and many European IP blocks are simply mapped to Ripe's postal address in NL.

> were could we find the RIPE-equivalent data for IPv6?

ripe.db.inet6num.gz in the same directory as the RIPE inetnum split.

> Also, I'd rather contribute to the InetAddressLocator project and test 
> with a PostgreSQL backend for data storage and querying (they support 
> the handy "inet" data type).

fine with me.