[buug] Goin' International

Aaron T Porter atporter at primate.net
Thu May 1 15:01:04 PDT 2003


On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 02:54:17PM -0700, Bob Read wrote:
> If your requirement is lenient (ie some manager sez
> "how many of our website users are from switzerland vs
> # from france?"), you could do reverse-DNS lookup and
> check the top-level domain for "country codes".  Not
> efficient, and not a complete solution, but would be
> trivial to implement.

	Better than DNS lookup would be a whois lookup for the netblock.



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