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Geolocation is determining the approximate or exact physical location of a person or object.

Geolocation is determining the approximate or exact physical location of a person or object.

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How does Google do DNS Geo Location request routing?

I'm wondering who is doing DNS geo location for google.com? By request geo location I mean detecting the location of the user, calculating the nearest server farm to his location, and then routing the request to selected location. We are evaluating…
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Is it possible to find the physical location of a wireless router based upon the broadcast signal?

Say for instance, a longitude and latitude? The only information available would be that it is an available wireless network in range (secured or unsecured).
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Do I need a local server to serve a website in Australia considering its cost?

I'm having trouble coming to a conclusion to my answer. I'm in charge of the development of a potentially large site for Australia. The task now is choosing a server. We will need a a powerful server to cater for the system being built with all its…
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google.com different IP in different countries. How?

If you ping google.com from different countries you will get replies from local google servers. How does that work? Can a DNS record have multiple A addresses? Could someone point me to the technology they use to do that? Update. OK, so Google's DNS…
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Is there any DNS that supports Geo-location / Directional DNS?

At ultradns.com or on comwired.com you can select multiple A records depending on location; x.com (United States) 174.1.1.1 x.com (Europe) 65.2.2.2 So requests are routed based on proximity/where they come from. You can do that as many times as you…
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Understand IP addresses and location

I risk posing an ill formed question here, but I'll give it a whirl. Does it generally stand to reason that the nearer IP address A is to IP address B numerically, then the nearer IP address A is to IP address B geographically? Whatever your…
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How often do IP blocks get reassigned to different regions?

Title says it all, really. I'm asking because I've got a subscription to MaxMind, and I'd like to know how important it is to stay on top of updates to their geolocation database.
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bind: cannot assign requested address

I've recently switch over to AWS from Rackspace and I'm setting up a simple geolocation server using freegeopip. While the following commands work perfectly on a new Rackspace serve (Ubuntu) I can't getting working on AWS (tried Red Hat and Ubuntu).…
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American Users have wrong IP address geolocation

In order to display the right content for my users I get their country based on their IP address. I have been receiving several reports from American users saying that the content is being displayed incorrectly. I always check their IP address and…
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One IP address, two different countries

I was using multiple websites to determine the geolocation of an IP address, and ended up getting two different countries (on the same continent). What is the reason behind this?
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Historical IP geo-location

I am building an application with a feature that has a lookup for cities/countries for IP addresses. How often does IP registrant information generally change? If I were to use a current database, such as the one provided by MaxMind, to historical…
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Ignoring maturity, which database would be better for storing spatial data?

I am looking to store possibly millions of spatial locations. I will need to do queries like "hotels within 10 miles of [lat,lng]". I've had a little experience with MongoDB in this regard and was actually impressed at how easy it was. However,…
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How do IP address to location services gather their information

My continued series of questions on IP addresses (ref Q1 and Q2). There are several IP address to location services. For instance: http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/ and http://www.ip2location.com/demo.aspx . How do they collect their data? (i.e.…
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With more mobile users, my geo ip database is becoming useless

I've been enjoying the benefits of Geo IP lookup from database for some time. It's great. People are increasingly trying to access my site from a mobile phones or 3G modems, and their physical location seems to have little relation to whereabouts my…
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Webalizer geolocation on Mac

I have installed Webalizer on Ubuntu with Synaptic Package Manager and it works just fine. Then I installed Webalizer on Mac (10.6.2) with http://webalizer.darwinports.com/. But geolocation does not work. I have parsed the exactly same log with…
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