Re: [PLUG] ISP Recommendations

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On 01 Jun, 2005, at 11:42, Michael C. Toren wrote
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:15:22AM -0400, William H. Magill wrote:
>
> > I didn't know there were any sites still around stupid enough to  
> > believe
> > that the IP address actually relates to the location of the client.
>
> That's exactly what Akamai does, and they're quite good at it :-)
>
>     http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/edgescape.html

I've been a DCAnet customer since they started and never gotten wrong  
stuff based on my IP address.

I also get the Akami feeds from the local Akami server sitting in the  
401 Hotel.

Akami is integrated with the various ISPs and uses routing  
information provided by them; they do not rely on the ARIN address  
assignments because they know they are simply not valid for location  
information.

Yes, if you dial-in to a POP someplace, you will normally get the  
data associated with that POP, which may not relate to your  
geographic location at all. However, since one normally authenticates  
with the POP server, the POP server knows your info and communicates  
that to Akami. However, if you are on the road and dial-in to your  
home POP, the it is obviously going to be wrong.

The complete problem is not unlike that related to Enhanced 911  
Services and both Cell-phones and now VoIP service.






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