[114092] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Apr 30 21:12:54 2009
In-Reply-To: <20090501005154.GA26724@angus.ind.WPI.EDU>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:12:37 -0700
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
> I have a customer who received a new assignment from ARIN, but the
> GeoIP data is returning Canada rather than the US as the location of
> the IP prefix. Google redirects to www.google.ca and some other sites
> aren't working correctly because they expect a US IP. Does anyone
> have any advice on how to update the GeoIP and other similar
> databases?
>
Wouldn't a SWIP for a sub-allocation work?
I was under the impression that most of the GeoIP services fed off of WHOIS
registration data points.
Than again, maybe I have no idea. ;-)
- - ferg
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