[114126] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Beckman)
Fri May 1 17:23:16 2009
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 17:23:11 -0400
From: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905012312270.22851@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Fri, 1 May 2009, William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote:
>
>> LOC records too. :-)
>>
>> dig @prisoner.iana.org hostname.as112.net any
>
> Have this seen any widespread use? I mean, there needs to be tens of percent
> of users having these before they'll get used by the GeoIP people.
People who are evil (or people seeking privacy) will intentionally put bad
data, thus ruining the whole thing.
I don't think self-reporting is the answer.
You MIGHT be able to determine location based on a traceroute, though
anycast would surely derail such attempts. I suspect most people rely on
3rd party GeoIP databases, and that those companies aren't interested in
hearing from you about your location change, mostly because they are
worried that if they do, the evildoers will overrun them with bad
requests, or bait and switch, making their data less accurate than it is
now without your block being correct.
Which I can understand.
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