On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 14:12, Bbbrooo@aol.com wrote:
How come when I put in thrash@justablip.co.uk I end up in Oklahoma City?
All it knows, and all anyone knows about an IP address is who has leased the block from ARIN. Thrash's block is under the management of: Washita Communications 101 N. Broadway, Suite 1140 Oklahoma City 73102 USA The software isn't actually following the connection around the planet, it just assumes that the IP address is based in the place where the lessor is located. There's nothing stopping Washita Communications carving off chunks of IP space and routing it to an ISP anywhere in the world. Or, Thrash is hosting in the U.S. And shame on him for giving his money to filthy Americans :) Peace. Mick --- "Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead." - Arundhati Roy