GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

[sfrost at snowman.net (Stephen Frost)]

Owne,

* Owen DeLong (owen at delong.com) wrote:
> However, my home address has been published in multiple whois databases since I moved here in 1993.
> 
> Not once has a nitwit with a gun shown up on my doorstep as a result. (I have had visits from nitwits with guns,
> but they were the results of various local oddities unrelated to the internet).

I'm glad to hear you've not had the joy of such an experience.

I nearly had one, but I managed to convince the nitwit to not to show
up, but it took a few hours on the phone.

He had seen my email address fly across while Linux was booting (thanks
to a Netfilter module I had written which had been included) on some
device he had he wasn't technical, so it wasn't easy for me to work out
what he was talking about, except that it was very clearly something he
was trying to "fix" to get his internet working again.