Hi Ed; Just an off topic comment. On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 10:43 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > William Case wrote: > > > Yes. I have used whois or jwhois. I guess just by looking at > > 64.71.255.198 I can't tell much, but have to use whois to find out more. > > I was wondering if say, all Broadcast companies are grouped as > > 64.70.xxx.xxx to 64.90.xxx.xxx or some such scheme -- but I guess not. > > Not much point to it, on thinking about it. > > You are correct. The IP address alone won't tell you much. They may be > some rhyme or reason as to how they are doled out...but the rhyme/reason is > not consistent over all of the world. And the rhyme/reason is most likely > predicated on the physical. > When I was a kid here in Ontario, you could tell what part of the province a car was from just by the first couple of numbers on the license plate, but that time is long gone. -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
