Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!soleil!mlb.semi.harris.com!thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com!del From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: determining timezone of internet site Message-ID: <1990Jul17.000836.3001@mlb.semi.harris.com> Date: 17 Jul 90 00:08:36 GMT References: <1990Jul14.063316.4303@iwarp.intel.com> <74@nic.cerf.net> Sender: news@mlb.semi.harris.com Distribution: usa Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL Lines: 18 In article emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: >In article <74@nic.cerf.net> pushp@nic.cerf.net (Pushpendra Mohta) writes: > > Most domains are geographically ( read time-zone) contiguous. > A "WHOIS" record should return atleast a city name. > >there's a file 'netcoord.txt' that tom libert (libert@merit.edu) came >up with, maps (approx) domain to location. could use that. think >it's on merit.edu or nis.nsf.net, i may have a copy on ftp.math.lsa.umich.edu >otherwise. Maybe there should be a new record type for latitude/longitude added to DNS. Hmn, but what happens when we set up an Internet site on space station Fred ;-) -- Don "Truck" Lewis Harris Semiconductor Internet: del@mlb.semi.harris.com PO Box 883 MS 62A-028 Phone: (407) 729-5205 Melbourne, FL 32901