- From: Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:31:39 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-talk@w3.org
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 D.White@mcs.surrey.ac.uk wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to find country or geographical info or > timezone info for an arbitrary domain name or IP address? > See RFC 1876, which would like to insert geographic position into DNS records. The Planet Multicast project at NLANR is also trying to obtain geographic positions. They have a small database of (mainly US and Mbone) cites vs. position records. I started a (very small) database of ip address to city records, plus for localised companies in .com, .org one can ask InterNIC. Many non-US countries are small enough that they only have one timezone, and a blob on a world map is not so far off (only hundreds of km, maybe, not thousands). See links at http://vancouver-webpages.com/net/maps/ Andrew Daviel mailto:advax@triumf.ca TRIUMF voice: 604-222-7376 4004 Wesbrook Mall fax: 604-222-7307 Vancouver BC http://andrew.triumf.ca/~andrew Canada V6T 2A3 49D14.7N 123D13.6W
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