IP identity help

[fiu88]

Im trying to figure out if AOL IP's are individual per machine or if an IP is for a large block of AOL users?

i.e 152.163.100.203....

Whois results

IP Location: United States - New York - Brooklyn - America Online
Does this mean the user is in brooklyn?

name type result
203.100.163.152.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
PTR
cache-rtc-ad09.proxy.aol.com

Can anyone shed some light on this?

[fiu88]

anyone?

[fiu88]

there has to be someone who has some insight here....

[jatar_k]

in my experienbce they are in blocks

the IP has nothing to do with where the user is located

ban one, ban a ton

[fiu88]

Thats what I thought....You really cant ban them because AOL users are the best customers you could ever wish for

[jatar_k]

hehe, so beautifully quick with the cc ;)

[GaryK]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the way blocks is being used here but the problem with AOL is one page (and all it's objects) might be retrieved by a multitude of IP Addresses. It's not unusual for me to see
the same number of unique IP Addresses as there are objects on the page.

[piskie]

AOL can leave more than one IP for a page and it's content files.

For instance:
x.htm IP-1
1.jpg IP-2
2.jpg IP-3

etc.

I have found multiples of even 8 IP's for a single "page Impression"

[larryn]

AOL is very upfront about publishing the addresses of their proxy servers... if you go to their webmaster site, you can find it under "AOL Network / AOL Proxy Info"

[cgrantski]

There's a geographic relationship between AOL proxies and users, isn't there? It's not exact, but it's pretty good .... kind of like what Akamai does.