Wednesday, April 09, 2008

What regions does 66.185.84.204 service?

We have already noted that there seems to be little or no regional bias towards the choice of which proxy a Rogers' subscriber might be sent through. This is graphically portrayed by the game of pick-up-sticks to the right (on which, see here).  Whatever the principles that governed the assignment of an individual IP to a specific proxy, they were not strictly geographical.

Another way to look at this is to consider the web-proxy, wc09.mtnk.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com (66.185.84.204), which is found in the following logs proxying for these IPs:
In short, wc09.wtnk~ seems to have been available province wide.

(Localities for the IPs above are based on this database, which seems to have obsolete data in some (but not all) of the ranges relevant to this matter.)