online oddity ....
zep
zgreenfelder at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 23:23:26 UTC 2015
On 01/07/2015 04:42 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>
> .... I sporadically visit http://whatismyipaddress.com/ to see what
> they think my IP address is, to see how tor is working (quite well,
> thank you). Today, it said I was at 209.239.123.90, & said it was out
> of Zurich. I did a 'whois 209.239.123.90' from the CLI & it said:
>
>
> NetRange: 209.239.112.0 - 209.239.127.255
> CIDR: 209.239.112.0/20
> NetName: HSI-2
> NetHandle: NET-209-239-112-0-1
> Parent: NET209 (NET-209-0-0-0-0)
> NetType: Direct Allocation
> OriginAS: AS30083
> Organization: Hosting Solutions International, Inc. (SERVE-6)
> RegDate: 2008-07-10
> Updated: 2013-03-18
> Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-209-239-112-0-1
>
> OrgName: Hosting Solutions International, Inc.
> OrgId: SERVE-6
> Address: 210 North Tucker Blvd.
> Address: Suite 910
> City: Saint Louis
> StateProv: MO
> PostalCode: 63101
> Country: US
> RegDate: 2003-04-15
> Updated: 2014-11-13
> Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/SERVE-6
>
>
> i.e. St.Louis MO, in the USA :-) .... Who's right ?
>
>
I'd suggest that just because a company has its headquarters (or a
presence) in the US, it may well have points of presence in many parts
of the world. a bit of googling comes back to reveal they have/had a
headquarters in kirkland, wa and this article:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/09/16/german-hoster-leases-space-in-st-louis/
a traceroute doesn't really give any better hints as to the physical
location of the address. given what I've been able to find, I'd
_guess_ that it's a german based company, arin assigned the block to
them and then they moved the space over to a new DC in st. louis, but
the ip2location DB hasn't been updated that whatsmyipaddress uses.
it's all a guess, really.
actually ip2location says it's in st. louis, too. I'd think it is in
st. louis.
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