On Saturday 11 April 2020 19:14:22 John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > And I live in the easternmost London Borough. So much for accuracy. > > My ISP's national HQ is in Sheffield, but where the hell Washington > > comes from, I don't know. > > GeoIP usually (though not always) puts me in Elk Mound because that's > where the CenturyLink concentrator that I connect to is located. > > Before the exhaustion of the IPv4 space (and before classless routing) > you could always tell what country and what ISP an IP was in by > inspection. ISPs tended to distribute IPs hierarchically and > geographically internally, so it didn't take too much research to > develop fairly reliable databases. Classless routing plus the buying > and selling of small blocks of IPs has destroyed that relationship. > It's also exploding the routing tables.
And I have discovered a way to have a fixed IPv4 address. My router's mac which I have cloned into a second emergency router, is how they assign an ipv4 address to me, net result has been a fixed dns address, so I am now on my 3rd 5 year registration of a namecheap address with geneslinuxbox.net. So you can click on the link in my sig, and get this machine for the last 11 or 12 years w/o me haveing to pay for the much higher dynamic address I really am. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
