From owner-freebsd-security Thu Feb 20 07:41:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA18428 for security-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 07:41:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from hauki.clinet.fi (root@hauki.clinet.fi [194.100.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA18402 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 07:41:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from [194.100.45.1] (mac.metis.clinet.fi [194.100.45.1]) by hauki.clinet.fi (8.8.5/8.6.4) with ESMTP id RAA06192 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:41:17 +0200 (EET) X-Sender: metis@pop.clinet.fi Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199702182057.HAA14294@nemeton.com.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:46:33 +0200 To: security@freebsd.org From: Petri Riihikallio Subject: Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> : 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 -- Petri.Riihikallio@Metis.fi