Re: [Sks-devel] geokey.webtru.st

[Ryan]

When I run the IP against the maxmind demo it says its in Paris France, I am 
using the paid country database thats several months out of date by now.. dunno 
why my db thinks its in russia but they charge more for access to the more 
accurate databases and there Regional Databases are 99.8% accurate @ country 
level..

They offer a Web based API that gives 20k queries for $20 and its much more 
accurate and always up to date vs the DB I purchased some time ago (I use it 
mainly for web server log parsing).. If I integrated that into just the 
KeyServer lookups the 20k queries would go along way with just daily checks, 
this give me alot more details with information like confidence values for 
accuracy.

In the end my current implementation is basically moot, its not a valid 
solution to do web based redirects to a local keyserver as gpg will not follow 
forwards and simply return "key not found" if a 200 result is not returned.

My plans from here are to get more accurate Geo location information for the 
keyserver network and build dynamic map based off the results.. build it up as 
an interesting web-portal to the SKS network for now.
If accuracy is acceptable I may proceed by creating DNS pools for each 
continent and any country with a defined number of servers available. 

-R


On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:57 AM, Kim Minh Kaplan wrote:

> Ryan writes:
> 
>> The GeoIP country database should be plenty accurate for this 
> 
> Plenty enough for a pet project, sure. But my guess would be that 
> keyserver.fr is in France, not in Russia. This is in no way intended as a 
> critic of your project but only as a reminder that geolocation by IP address 
> is not reliable.
> -- 
> Kim Minh

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