On May 1, 2005, at 6:43 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Chris Boyd wrote:
s/zipcode/unique geographic identifier on the rough order of a square mile/
Or have the server return the SNMP location information. The network operator would then be able to configure locally meaningful information.
Why do you think the ISP knows anything more precise that the information they already give in the IN-ADDR.ARPA name?
Sorry--Made an ambigous "network operator" reference there. I meant the operator of the LAN, not the ISP. This would be a similar responsibility to what PBX admins already have to do, as others have pointed out. Less clueful and/or home users would need to have dire warnings printed in the doc and displayed on screen about configuring the correct location information, but that can easily be done in new equipment and updates to older software. Adding the information as a DHCP option sounds interesting. Maybe bears further discussion....? --Chris