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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Giorgio Scherl wrote: > that is a good point but i'm personally more interested where users come > from. as long as whois databases are the primary source we will indeed have > to deal with major holes. does anybody have an idea how AOL maintains their > IP address space? would a company like AOL be willing to share the knowledge > about their geographic ip address space distribution? AOL proxies their dialup connections for reasons which are beyond my understanding. You can get an address from the same /24 whether dialing into San Jose or Boston. I can think of a lot of problems with that arrangement, and the only benefit I see is a privacy issue, which I'd have a hard time thinking AOL would be interested in. Thoughts? No one has mentioned quova.com as a commercial source. They're pricey for some value of the term, with stiff monthly minimum pricing and per-query charges. --- David