Several years ago (looking at archive.org it was at the end of 2001) I wrote a database that translated IPs to locations. Very similar to the city-db from maxmind.com. Perhaps someone still remembers the article in the iX about it ?
Anyway, now it is time to release the idea to the public. The idea is a distributed, open-source IP to location translation. Source comes later.
The basic idea
The idea behind IP-to-location translation is pretty old already.
For I stumbled over it when I was running traceroute
to some IP addresses on IRC. If you are in city-specific
channels, you can easy proof if the basic idea works or not.
# traceroute -w 1 -q 1 …[Read more]