Comments on: IT Crowd outside the UK http://ambrand.com/2006/02/11/the-it-crowd-and-geoip/ Is maith liom Corcaigh, Éire Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: info http://ambrand.com/2006/02/11/the-it-crowd-and-geoip/#comment-57 info Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:01:39 +0000 http://ambrand.com/2006/02/11/the-it-crowd-and-geoip/#comment-57 on the other hand I'm not too excited... I know friends in UK "transnational corporations" who have US, CA, DE, FR IPs from their patents and couldn't watch it on the other hand I’m not too excited… I know friends in UK “transnational corporations” who have US, CA, DE, FR IPs from their patents and couldn’t watch it

]]> By: Sarah http://ambrand.com/2006/02/11/the-it-crowd-and-geoip/#comment-52 Sarah Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:17:42 +0000 http://ambrand.com/2006/02/11/the-it-crowd-and-geoip/#comment-52 I'm aslo in Northern Ireland, and phoned Channel 4 about this matter this morning. According to the lovely folk on their Viewer Enquiry line, complaints on the subject should be sent to dot4@channel4.com . Of course the episodes can be obtained elsewhere, but damnit, it's the principle of the thing! If the emails fail, I suggest we deal with this in the traditional six counties manner - full-scale rioting and a dodgy human rights lawyer. ;-) PS: You could well be right about the country keyword. My own ISP aso uses "GB" rather than "UK". I’m aslo in Northern Ireland, and phoned Channel 4 about this matter this morning. According to the lovely folk on their Viewer Enquiry line, complaints on the subject should be sent to dot4@channel4.com .

Of course the episodes can be obtained elsewhere, but damnit, it’s the principle of the thing!

If the emails fail, I suggest we deal with this in the traditional six counties manner - full-scale rioting and a dodgy human rights lawyer. ;-)
PS: You could well be right about the country keyword. My own ISP aso uses “GB” rather than “UK”.

]]> By: info http://ambrand.com/2006/02/11/the-it-crowd-and-geoip/#comment-31 info Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:11:35 +0000 http://ambrand.com/2006/02/11/the-it-crowd-and-geoip/#comment-31 The full name of the UK is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". However, politics aside the channel4 page will just a use a script that looks up a database with the IP address of a visitor. This could be a static database, or a live lookup. Your current IP returns inetnum: 62.254.32.0 - 62.254.63.255 netname: NTL descr: NTL Internet descr: Belfast site country: GB admin-c: NNMC1-RIPE tech-c: NNMC1-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: AS5089-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered role: NTLI Network Management Centre address: NTL Internet address: Crawley Court address: Winchester address: Hampshire address: SO21 2QA remarks: ------------------------------------------------------- remarks: For abuse notifications please - remarks: file an online case @ http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport remarks: 44 1633 710142 (Voicemail Only) remarks: ------------------------------------------------------- remarks: For peering issues/requests please - remarks: email : peering@ntli.net remarks: ------------------------------------------------------- admin-c: MH22007-RIPE admin-c: NR731-RIPE admin-c: CW1083-RIPE tech-c: MH22007-RIPE tech-c: CW1083-RIPE admin-c: NR731-RIPE nic-hdl: NNMC1-RIPE mnt-by: AS5089-MNT e-mail: planninginformation.management@ntl.com source: RIPE # Filtered % Information related to '62.254.0.0/17AS5089' route: 62.254.0.0/17 descr: NTL-UK-IP-BLOCK origin: AS5089 mnt-by: AS5089-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered If the latter is true then Belfast could be excluded, but again leaving politics aside, it's more likely the script looks for the keyword "UK" and your ISP has chosen the keyword "GB" from RIPE. The full name of the UK is “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. However, politics aside the channel4 page will just a use a script that looks up a database with the IP address of a visitor. This could be a static database, or a live lookup.

Your current IP returns

inetnum: 62.254.32.0 - 62.254.63.255
netname: NTL
descr: NTL Internet
descr: Belfast site
country: GB
admin-c: NNMC1-RIPE
tech-c: NNMC1-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: AS5089-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

role: NTLI Network Management Centre
address: NTL Internet
address: Crawley Court
address: Winchester
address: Hampshire
address: SO21 2QA
remarks: ——————————————————-
remarks: For abuse notifications please -
remarks: file an online case @ http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport
remarks: 44 1633 710142 (Voicemail Only)
remarks: ——————————————————-
remarks: For peering issues/requests please -
remarks: email : peering@ntli.net
remarks: ——————————————————-
admin-c: MH22007-RIPE
admin-c: NR731-RIPE
admin-c: CW1083-RIPE
tech-c: MH22007-RIPE
tech-c: CW1083-RIPE
admin-c: NR731-RIPE
nic-hdl: NNMC1-RIPE
mnt-by: AS5089-MNT
e-mail: planninginformation.management@ntl.com
source: RIPE # Filtered

% Information related to ‘62.254.0.0/17AS5089′

route: 62.254.0.0/17
descr: NTL-UK-IP-BLOCK
origin: AS5089
mnt-by: AS5089-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered

If the latter is true then Belfast could be excluded, but again leaving politics aside, it’s more likely the script looks for the keyword “UK” and your ISP has chosen the keyword “GB” from RIPE.

]]> By: Phil http://ambrand.com/2006/02/11/the-it-crowd-and-geoip/#comment-30 Phil Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:02:40 +0000 http://ambrand.com/2006/02/11/the-it-crowd-and-geoip/#comment-30 As far as I remember, Northern Ireland is part of the uk, right? I got the same message. As far as I remember, Northern Ireland is part of the uk, right? I got the same message.

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