On 26/08/13 11:41, Bob Eager wrote:
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:37:43 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

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The Natural Philosopher writes:
I would be very interested to know how many people here find the same -
that it is more accurate than it has any right to be.

It certainly suggests thatif you are on a fixed IP your town at least
is known. I'd be interested to hear also from those on a dynamically
allocated IP address how accurate it is.
Fixed IP here, and it's 150 miles out, suggesting Nottingham. Usually,
sites guess I'm in Bracknell (where my ISP is),
but the suggestion from this site has no relationship with with anything
I can think of.

Ah, worked it out - it thinks I'm in Arnold (near Nottingham),
which it's presumably got confused with Andrews & Arnold, my ISP.
Yes, I mentioned that either here or in the other group where TNP Posted
this.

I think it's a bit disturbing that our TNP didn't know about this
information availability years ago...!



I did. nearly every other IP methodology either puts me in harlow,
london or somewhere where IDnet (my isp) haskit.
This one put me 3 miles from my house.

That suggest that someone somewhere is building a geographic database of
IP addresses and sometimes its remarkably accurate.

Think: you go online shipping you fill in your name and address, and the
vendor passes that off to e.g. a third party for card verification, or
google analytics or something and google says 'hmm. Thats his addess,
that's his IP number' and stuffs it in a database somewhere.

I reiterate, whois and reverse DNS records ALONE are not enough to ID
my location that exactly.

Those I know. This is different.

What is clear is that it hasn't got that accurate data on most people,
especially those on dynamic addresses. But on some, it has.

However another oddity. The whole RANGE of IP addresses appears to be
more or less the same as far as the lookup is concerned.

but step outside of that class C and suddenly its moves to Hertfordshire.

One possibility is that BT monitors radius servers And that is in fact
the exchange code of the DSL kit being cross referenced.

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