[121416] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New netblock Geolocate wrong (Google)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Mon Jan 18 18:36:51 2010
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:42:23 -0500
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: "Rosenberry, Eric" <eric.rosenberry@iovation.com>
In-Reply-To: <139EF7B8AE318D408CFCB51C899CAF3403B92793FC@cpexch01.iovation.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:27:30 -0800
"Rosenberry, Eric" <eric.rosenberry@iovation.com> wrote:
> I just lit up a new IP netblock (assigned directly from ARIN) and the companies that provide Geolocate databases do not have the correct location information available yet.
>
> Specifically Maxmind (http://www.maxmind.com/) thinks we are in Canada and IP2LOCATION (http://www.ip2location.com/) has no data.
>
> For the most part this is benign or at worst slightly impacting since I often get redirected to global load balance nodes up in Canada instead of locally in the North West, however, the more major issue I am running into is that Google chooses to redirect all my users to www.google.ca<http://www.google.ca>.
You may also find that certain things are unavailable to your users.
Sometimes sheet music or books are only available in the US for
copyright reasons.
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