home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

<< oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]

 Message 3774 
 August Abolins to Michiel van der Vlist 
 GeoIP stuff 
 03 Jan 22 12:13:00 
 
MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet f8132ba9
REPLY: 2:280/5555 61d321c0
PID: OpenXP/5.0.51 (Win32)
CHRS: ASCII 1
TZUTC: -0500
Hello Michiel van der Vlist!

** On Monday 03.01.22 - 17:11, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Anna Christina
Nass:

 AN>> ..(Before, I chose the he.net tunnel to ensure a static
 AN>> prefix, but I  had more and more trouble because of GeoIP
 AN>> stuff for some services...)

 MvdV> A well known problem. When I used a he.net tunnel,
 MvdV> most geolocation services positioned me in the USA,
 MvdV> despite the POP being in Amsterdam...

Is accurate geo-location critical?  I find it amusing, and  
somewhat satisfying when an IP Lookup points my connection out  
of province, or miles and miles away which is probably based on  
the location of the server. But sometimes the latter seems to  
change even though I might have a fixed IP.

--
  ../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.51
 * Origin:  (2:221/1.58)
SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 153/757 7715
SEEN-BY: 154/10 203/0 221/1 6 360 226/30 229/424 426 428 550 664 700
SEEN-BY: 230/0 240/1120 5138 5411 5824 5832 5853 249/206 317 400 266/512
SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 5006 5555 282/1038 292/854 8125 301/1 310/31
SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/234 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 460/58
SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 770/1 2452/250 2454/119 5020/545
PATH: 221/1 280/464 240/5832 229/426


<< oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]

(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca