- From: Abigail <abigail@fnx.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 00:15:36 -0400 (EDT)
- To: advax@triumf.ca
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
You, Andrew Daviel, wrote: ++ ++ 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). FNX isn't a large company, yet you'll find machines in the .fnx.com domain in the USA, Canada, UK, Zwitserland, Singapore, Australia and Tokyo. That's 6 timezones spanning 14 hours. Abigail
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