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Google incorrect IPv6 GeoIP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yang Yu)
Thu Apr 11 19:13:56 2013

Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:13:40 -0400
From: Yang Yu <yang.yu.list@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

For some reason Google redirects requests from Dreamhost's IPv6 block
2607:f298::/32 to google.com.hk

$ wget http://www.google.com
--2013-04-11 16:06:45--  http://www.google.com/
Resolving www.google.com... 2607:f8b0:400c:c01::93, 173.194.75.99,
173.194.75.147, ...
Connecting to www.google.com|2607:f8b0:400c:c01::93|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=3Dp&hl=3Dzh-CN&pref=3Dhkredirect&=
pval=3Dyes&q=3Dhttp://www.google.com.hk/&ust=3D1365721636015681&usg=3DAFQjC=
NEa0yI6UdIVf1tqLtCw3qrBC6Akww
[following]
--2013-04-11 16:06:46--
http://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=3Dp&hl=3Dzh-CN&pref=3Dhkredirect&pval=3Dyes=
&q=3Dhttp://www.google.com.hk/&ust=3D1365721636015681&usg=3DAFQjCNEa0yI6UdI=
Vf1tqLtCw3qrBC6Akww
Resolving www.google.com.hk... 2607:f8b0:400c:c01::6a, 173.194.75.105,
173.194.75.99, ...
Connecting to www.google.com.hk|2607:f8b0:400c:c01::6a|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://www.google.com.hk/ [following]
--2013-04-11 16:06:46--  http://www.google.com.hk/
Reusing existing connection to www.google.com.hk:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: =93index.html=94


The report IP problem form
(https://support.google.com/websearch/contact/ip?rd=3D1) does not think
IPv6 addresses are valid.

Can someone help with this issue?

Thanks.

Yang


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