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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:46:33 +0200
From:      Petri Riihikallio <Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi>
To:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <l03020900af32211a6491@[194.100.45.1]>
In-Reply-To: <199702182057.HAA14294@nemeton.com.au>
References:  <E0vwjvj-0002od-00@rover.village.org>

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>> : install from a site called .edu/.us or .org/.com known to be US, or so.
>>
>> .EDU, .COM and .ORG are international.  Do a whois on msi-uk.com
>> sometime :-)
>
>All domains are international.  I have a '.au' host in the USA, and
>hundreds of '.se' hosts in Australia.
>
>You are somewhat better off relying on IP address (assuming that you
>can get the information on who is nominally where) but even this
>doesn't help a lot.


Wasn't there a field for the ICMB address in domain registrations ? It would be
fairly easy to approximate US from the longitude and latitude. Hawaii and
Alaska
would be treated as exceptions. ;-)

Cheers
Petri

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Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi





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