Geolocation and Starlink
The ISP Column A column on various things Internet Other Formats: Geolocation and Starlink September 2025 Geoff Huston “Where are you?” is not an easy question to answer on the Internet. The telephone system’s address plan embedded a certain amount of physical location information in the fixed line network, and a full E.164 telephone number indicated your location in terms of your country, and your area within that country. The Internet did not adopt a geographic address plan which means that you’re going to need a lot of additional information if you want to map an IP address into a location at the level of a country or a city. Creating and maintaining such collections of geolocation data that maps IP addresses to a geolocation…
