IP Geolocation Databases: Unreliable?

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 2011

Abstract

The most widely used technique for IP geolocation consists in building a database to keep the mapping between IP blocks and a geographic location. Several databases are available and are frequently used by many services and web sites in the Internet. Contrary to widespread belief, geolocation databases are far from being as reliable as they claim. In this paper, we conduct a comparison of several current geolocation databases -both commercial and free- to have an insight of the limitations in their usability.

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Ingmar Poese
Steve Uhlig
Steve Uhlig
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Mohamed Ali Kaafar
Benoit Donnet
Benoit Donnet
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Bamba Gueye
Cite (BibTeX) 
@article {ISMBB11, 
	title = {IP Geolocation Databases: Unreliable?},
	journal = {ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review},
	volume = {41},
	number = {2},
	author = {Ingmar Poese and Steve Uhlig and Mohamed Ali Kaafar and Benoit Donnet and Bamba Gueye},
	year = {2011},
	month = {April},
}