Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:23:22 -0500 From: zep <zgreenfelder@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: online oddity .... Message-ID: <54ADBFEA.7070708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54ADA839.10404@hiwaay.net> References: <54ADA839.10404@hiwaay.net>
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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
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