[147215] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Global BGP and Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Warner)
Mon Dec 5 17:20:23 2011
In-Reply-To: <1323110502.64552.YahooMailNeo@web160104.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:19:12 +0800
From: Andy Warner <andy@andy.net>
To: Victor Esposito <victoresposito@yahoo.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Victor Esposito
<victoresposito@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with a Global=A0 ASN, and Google inappropri=
ately associating IP's to the wrong countries?
>
> We have our AS registered in Argentina, with ARIN space under it.=A0 From=
time to time, Google thinks the IP's are in Argentina, even though they ar=
e in the US.=A0 We have this issue elsewhere across the globe as well.
>
> I was pondering multiple ASN's, but I was not sure if there was a better =
method for dealing with this.
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Victor Esposito
Maintaining IP-Geolocation mappings in inherently hard so they're not
perfect. You'll probably need to update multiple IP Geolocation
providers, but you can provide corrections to Google using this form:
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/request.py?contact_type=3Dip
--
Andy
