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SIGMETRICS 2001 / Performance 2001Determining the Geographic Location of Internet Hosts |
| Authors |
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Venkata N. Padmanabhan Microsoft Research
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian |
| Abstract |
| We study the problem of determining the geographic location of an Internet host knowing only its IP address. We have developed three distinct techniques, GeoTrack}, GeoPing, and GeoCluster, to address this problem. These techniques exploit information derived from the DNS, network delay measurements, and inter-domain routing. We have evaluated our techniques using extensive and varied datasets. |