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[Hroi Sigurdsson <hroi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:
> For at komme tilbage til spørgsmålet: Jeg tror ikke
> det er muligt at lave det program. IP-nummeret siger
> i sig selv intet om hvor i verden en maskine står, og
> host-navnet kan heller ikke rigtig bruges. Det ville
> ellers være en fed finesse.

Fra Debians pakkearkiv
(http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/x11/xt.html):

Package: xt 0.8.13-2
A graphical traceroute


It traces (on a picture of the Earth) the route your IP packets travel
to their destination. 

Depends:

 gtkglarea (NOT AVAILABLE) 
      shared libraries required by X clients 
    libc6 
      GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone data 
    libgtk1 (>= 1:1.0.6-2) 
      The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X 
    libjpeg62 
      The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runtime library [libc6] 
    libtiff3g 
      tiff runtime library [libc6] 
    mesag3 
      A 3-D graphics library which uses the OpenGL API [libc6]. 
    xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) 
      shared libraries required by X clients 
    zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3) 
      compression library - runtime 
    netstd 
      Networking binaries and daemons for Linux 

Faktisk er der i dns systemet plads til information om hoejde- og
breddegrader (det staar i jeg-ved-ikke-hvilken-RFC). Desvaerre er det
faa der gider at skrive denne information ind og derfor kan denne
grafiske ting i mange tilfaelde vaere meget misvisende.

-- 
                         "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be 
Hroi Kristjan Sigurdsson  development of an easy way to factor large
hroi@xxxxxxxxxx           prime numbers." - Bill Gates