From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 23:23:26 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B0AFA6E for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 23:23:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x231.google.com (mail-qa0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4A55FF9 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2015 23:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id dc16so4957017qab.8 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:23:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ytC1P/rauZfnVB03WDb8cSgCTGm2C8tXM08Cz66oQhI=; b=RD1zMZ5KIaLzcexs2mFrlzHOCBJddIJtiJn+g9+i1jDcq/ugSJWzBkzXCtaQ6V02mC J6WDwssPeGj+yG8ApE8EoS0T+kkv+qIRbAJNGQW1E5d6TJ5xC7wRUVYkYg9xP4U0TKu4 eis5XKxw2QJy7w8N1XXbYaVDk2qgORdhQTOcFx3Y4iH+iHPG2SomOo4FhuIEHbKvzhfK wYNHlr8xuMrfB3ozdAAH0/ptiENeMLGxctO7leH9gXDgYGOmPLFoS+x95UXYsEEp7o0f PgL7+aG+K6fqGAPkBeaLULF67fUwyuo39LY0yu+LOFnG3KmZJIPohpHaWnVFyrj1O4Ri FylA== X-Received: by 10.140.29.97 with SMTP id a88mr8732064qga.69.1420673004822; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:23:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from smaug.zep.net (pool-173-73-156-117.washdc.fios.verizon.net. [173.73.156.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f7sm2442969qar.41.2015.01.07.15.23.23 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:23:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54ADBFEA.7070708@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:23:22 -0500 From: zep User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: online oddity .... References: <54ADA839.10404@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <54ADA839.10404@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 23:23:26 -0000 On 01/07/2015 04:42 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > .... I sporadically visit http://whatismyipaddress.com/ to see what > they think my IP address is, to see how tor is working (quite well, > thank you). Today, it said I was at 209.239.123.90, & said it was out > of Zurich. I did a 'whois 209.239.123.90' from the CLI & it said: > > > NetRange: 209.239.112.0 - 209.239.127.255 > CIDR: 209.239.112.0/20 > NetName: HSI-2 > NetHandle: NET-209-239-112-0-1 > Parent: NET209 (NET-209-0-0-0-0) > NetType: Direct Allocation > OriginAS: AS30083 > Organization: Hosting Solutions International, Inc. (SERVE-6) > RegDate: 2008-07-10 > Updated: 2013-03-18 > Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-209-239-112-0-1 > > OrgName: Hosting Solutions International, Inc. > OrgId: SERVE-6 > Address: 210 North Tucker Blvd. > Address: Suite 910 > City: Saint Louis > StateProv: MO > PostalCode: 63101 > Country: US > RegDate: 2003-04-15 > Updated: 2014-11-13 > Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/SERVE-6 > > > i.e. St.Louis MO, in the USA :-) .... Who's right ? > > I'd suggest that just because a company has its headquarters (or a presence) in the US, it may well have points of presence in many parts of the world. a bit of googling comes back to reveal they have/had a headquarters in kirkland, wa and this article: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/09/16/german-hoster-leas= es-space-in-st-louis/ a traceroute doesn't really give any better hints as to the physical location of the address. given what I've been able to find, I'd _guess_ that it's a german based company, arin assigned the block to them and then they moved the space over to a new DC in st. louis, but the ip2location DB hasn't been updated that whatsmyipaddress uses. =20 it's all a guess, really. actually ip2location says it's in st. louis, too. I'd think it is in st. louis. --=20 public gpg key id: AE60F64C