determining timezone of internet site

[Don Lewis]

In article <EMV.90Jul15165230 at urania.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv at math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>In article <74 at nic.cerf.net> pushp at 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 at 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 ;-)
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Don "Truck" Lewis                      Harris Semiconductor
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