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Foil 4 Host Identification

From Summary of Database Storage and Search of Web Logs at ARL Review ARL End of Year 2 Review Aberdeen Sheraton 4 Points -- July 29-30 98. by Jake Kim, Deepak Ramanathan
Since the Web Server logs the hostname of the client, a decomposition of this hostname would reveal geographic and/or organizational information about the client.
Thus a hostname such as saturn5.sun.com would reveal the client to originate from Sun Microsystems
A client from Canada would have a hostname like ts2-08.edm.istar.ca where the .ca reveals the country identity being Canada.

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