[TriLUG] IP Addresses and Geography...

[Kevin Hunter]

At 1:21a -0400 on Fri, 12 Jul 2008, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone uses the geography of remote IP locations to
> authorize or de-authorize access to their machines?  Say all your sales
> people are only in the US and you want to simply rule out traffic from
> around the globe?  Does anyone (on trilug) do this?

I guess from just a reduction of traffic this could be cool, but I'd be
concerned about making important decisions on something that is so
easily faked or spoofed.  Is this not at all security decision?  Have I
missed something?

> Second, it'd make an awfully interesting demo to watch a map connect my
> laptop to points on a world map based on the IPs I interact with.
> Anyone know of such a thing?

There is xtraceroute, but that's just a glorified ping/traceroute.  I'd
be curious for something like this as well.  I could see this being
well-used by a

 * sales department
 * marketing department
 * security department

Visualization is an awesome tool that I think is under utilized and
under appreciated in a lot of what we do as computer
professionals/students/hobbyists.

Kevin