Automate time zone selection (Was: RFE: use nasa worldwind...)
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri Jun 1 20:26:36 UTC 2007
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:41:46PM -0500, chasd wrote:
> > Martin Sourada wrote:
>
> > 1. from IP get your location on Earth (or somewhere else? :-D), no
> > need
> > for precision, if time zone is OK, than location is precise enough.
>
> Where on Earth are these addresses :
>
> 10.0.0.1
> 172.16.0.1
> 192.168.0.1
> 127.0.0.1
> fc00::/7
If you can connect to the remote server that does the translation,
it won't see these addresses, it'll see the address of the server
you're masquerading/tunneling through.
> What about systems with more than one interface / address - which one
> do you pick ?
Why does it matter, it's not like the different interfaces are
going to be geographically different.
> Also realize not all computers may be on Earth ( ISS, etc. )
> If you build it, don't build it so it only works only now and in only
> the simplest situations.
Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
Dave
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