According to my IP I am in Maurtius :)

[w1z4rd]

IP 196.2.127.9
DNS cache-01.jhb.wbs.co.za
Country Mauritius
Broswer info Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0


wtf? WBS buy the IP range from Maurtius or something? How does this work?

 

[Daveogg]

Looking up 196.2.127.9 at whois.radb.net.

NOTE: More information appears to be available at AS3741.

Using 10 day old cached answer (or, you can get fresh results).
Hiding E-mail address (you can get results with the E-mail address).

route: 196.2.96.0/19
descr: WBS c/o Internet Solutions (Pty) Ltd (South Africa)
origin: AS3741
mnt-by: MAINT-AS3741
changed: ******@is.co.za 20050420
source: RADB

 

[ic]

IP 196.2.127.9
DNS cache-01.jhb.wbs.co.za
Country Mauritius
Broswer info Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0


wtf? WBS buy the IP range from Maurtius or something? How does this work?

Which db are you using?

According to AfriNIC - no Maurtius...

% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.

inetnum:      196.2.96.0 - 196.2.127.255
netname:      ORG-WBSL1-AFRINIC-20050406
descr:        Wireless Business Solutions (Proprietary) Limited
descr:        15 Floor Radiopark building
descr:        24 Henly Road
descr:        Johannesburg
descr:        Gauteng
descr:        2006
country:      ZA
org:          ORG-WBSL1-AFRINIC
admin-c:      SZA4-AFRINIC
tech-c:       SBN2-AFRINIC
status:       ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by:       AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower:    TF-196-46-64-0-196-46-71-255-MNT
changed:      hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050406
source:       AFRINIC

organisation: ORG-WBSL1-AFRINIC
org-name:     Wireless Business Solutions (Proprietary) Limited
org-type:     LIR
address:      Wireless Business Solutions (Proprietary) Limited
address:      15 Floor Radiopark building
address:      24 Henly Road
address:      Johannesburg
address:      Gauteng
address:      2006
country:      ZA
e-mail:       samkelo.zake@wbsmobile.co.za
admin-c:      SZA4-AFRINIC
tech-c:       SBN2-AFRINIC
remarks:      Soth African wireless service provider
mnt-ref:      TF-196-46-64-0-196-46-71-255-MNT
mnt-by:       AFRINIC-HM-MNT
changed:      hostmaster@arin.net 20040826
changed:      hostmaster@arin.org 20040826
changed:      hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050221
source:       AFRINIC

person:       Samkelo Zake
address:      15 Radiopark Building
address:      24 Henly Road
address:      Johannesburg
address:      Gauteng
address:      2006
address:      ZA
phone:        +27 8774700 4715
e-mail:       samkelo.zake@wbsmobile.co.za
nic-hdl:      SZA4-AFRINIC
changed:      hostmaster@arin.net 20040826
changed:      hostmaster@arin.net 20040826
changed:      hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050221
source:       AFRINIC

person:       Sibusiso Blessing Nzuza
address:      15 Floor Radiopark building
address:      24 Henly Road
address:      Johannesburg
address:      Gauteng
address:      2006
address:      ZA
phone:        +27861 927 6624 4714
e-mail:       sibusiso.nzuza@wbsmobile.co.za
nic-hdl:      SBN2-AFRINIC
changed:      hostmaster@arin.net 20040826
changed:      hostmaster@arin.net 20040831
changed:      hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050221
source:       AFRINIC

 

[rebel]

According to http://www.international-orders.com I'm in Zimbabwe!


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[Crash]

I with AfriNIC here.

 

[WitWolf]

Had the same issue when I tired to log on to our backend(webinterface) and said that we ar located in Maurtius. Unfortunetly dont have any records of this but was told about this from our canadian admin team on the backend.

 

[WitWolf]

this is where I got the information from:
http://www.iamanerd.com/whoami.asp

 

[RichardG]

That's true, what he is saying, I've had the same thing from other website says that IP is registed for Mauritius, GEOIP has it under that aswell.