[121418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New netblock Geolocate wrong (Google)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Kumari)
Mon Jan 18 20:23:21 2010
From: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
In-Reply-To: <139EF7B8AE318D408CFCB51C899CAF3403B92793FC@cpexch01.iovation.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:22:34 -0500
To: "Rosenberry, Eric" <eric.rosenberry@iovation.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 18, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Rosenberry, Eric 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.
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> Specifically Maxmind (http://www.maxmind.com/) thinks we are in Canada =
and IP2LOCATION (http://www.ip2location.com/) has no data.
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> 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>.
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> So my questions to others are:
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> 1. How do I get my data updated in all of the geolocate =
providers databases as quickly as possible?
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> 2. What geolocate database does Google use (is it homegrown?) =
and how do I get them to update my data?
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/request.py?contact_type=3Dip
If it is urgent / lots of users are grumping at you, feel free to send =
me an off-list mail including the information asked for on that page and =
I'll follow up internally.=20
Something that I have often wondered is how folks would feel about =
publishing some sort of geo information in reverse DNS (something like =
LOC records, with whatever precision you like) -- this would allow the =
folks that geo stuff to automagically provide the best answer, and =
because you control the record, you can specify whatever resolution / =
precision you like. Based upon the sorry state of existing reverse, I'm =
suspecting that there is no point....
W
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> Thanks.
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> -Eric
> _______________________________________________________________
> Eric Rosenberry
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