Albo
03-30-2004, 04:21 PM
Hi,
I've seen this problem very often on other sites and even some geo-lookup software, maybe it is also what is happening here.
Since 11/18/2002, administration of all Latin American and Caribbean IPv4 and IPv6 addresses have been transfered from ARIN to LACNIC, so, since then ARIN isn't anymore an authorative entity towards those address blocks.
Therefore, when you perform a whois asking about an Latin American IP or an IP block to ARIN's whois servers, you will get an answer telling you that you must query LACNIC's whois servers, and gives you the physical address of LACNIC which is located in the city of Montevideo in Uruguay.
For example, this is the output of a lacnic-aware whois binary (fbsd4.9):
#whois 200.49.97.195
OrgName: Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry
OrgID: LACNIC
Address: Potosi 1517
City: Montevideo
StateProv:
PostalCode: 11500
Country: UY
ReferralServer: whois://whois.lacnic.net
[ ..... blah ..... ]
And below that:
% Copyright LACNIC lacnic.net
% The data below is provided for information purposes
% and to assist persons in obtaining information about or
% related to AS and IP numbers registrations
% By submitting a whois query, you agree to use this data
% only for lawful purposes.
% 2004-03-30 13:14:06 (BRT -03:00)
inetnum: 200.49.96/20
status: allocated
owner: Netizen S.A
ownerid: AR-NESA11-LACNIC
responsible: Sebastian Bellagamba
address: Peru, 263, 2do piso
address: 1067 - Capital Federal -
country: AR
[ ..... blah ..... ]
That last info is the real one, the first part is displayed for every latam query.
To sum this up, the problem is that when Statcounter tries to identify the location of an latam ip address most of the time it says that is located in Uruguay when it actually it is somewhere else.
Hope you can fix it.
Best regards,
Luis
PS: great work on the counter guys, it's good to know that there still is some people that actually do what they advertise :)
I've seen this problem very often on other sites and even some geo-lookup software, maybe it is also what is happening here.
Since 11/18/2002, administration of all Latin American and Caribbean IPv4 and IPv6 addresses have been transfered from ARIN to LACNIC, so, since then ARIN isn't anymore an authorative entity towards those address blocks.
Therefore, when you perform a whois asking about an Latin American IP or an IP block to ARIN's whois servers, you will get an answer telling you that you must query LACNIC's whois servers, and gives you the physical address of LACNIC which is located in the city of Montevideo in Uruguay.
For example, this is the output of a lacnic-aware whois binary (fbsd4.9):
#whois 200.49.97.195
OrgName: Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry
OrgID: LACNIC
Address: Potosi 1517
City: Montevideo
StateProv:
PostalCode: 11500
Country: UY
ReferralServer: whois://whois.lacnic.net
[ ..... blah ..... ]
And below that:
% Copyright LACNIC lacnic.net
% The data below is provided for information purposes
% and to assist persons in obtaining information about or
% related to AS and IP numbers registrations
% By submitting a whois query, you agree to use this data
% only for lawful purposes.
% 2004-03-30 13:14:06 (BRT -03:00)
inetnum: 200.49.96/20
status: allocated
owner: Netizen S.A
ownerid: AR-NESA11-LACNIC
responsible: Sebastian Bellagamba
address: Peru, 263, 2do piso
address: 1067 - Capital Federal -
country: AR
[ ..... blah ..... ]
That last info is the real one, the first part is displayed for every latam query.
To sum this up, the problem is that when Statcounter tries to identify the location of an latam ip address most of the time it says that is located in Uruguay when it actually it is somewhere else.
Hope you can fix it.
Best regards,
Luis
PS: great work on the counter guys, it's good to know that there still is some people that actually do what they advertise :)