[buug] Goin' International

Bob Read unixjavabob at yahoo.com
Thu May 1 15:06:16 PDT 2003


good point.  A+ for Aaron.

T-shirt I heard about today:

"Shut up, or I'll replace you with a 3-line shell
script"

--- Aaron T Porter <atporter at primate.net> wrote:
> 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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