[166411] in North American Network Operators' Group
ipv6 and geolocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blair Trosper)
Tue Oct 22 15:16:27 2013
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:16:12 -0500
From: Blair Trosper <blair.trosper@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Everyone loves IPv6, and it's a fantastic technology. However, I've been
pondering a few quirks of v6, including the low priority of PTR, but I have
a question I want to throw out there:
Do you think IPv6 geolocatoin (GeoIP) will ever be viable?
If so, when do you think this will happen? If not, what's the superseding
solution? (The W3C location technology fails miserably for me 100% of the
time even on IPv4).
Two of the "big four" GeoIP providers don't even catalog IPv6, and the
other two's IPv6 database is unremarkable and usually only has the country.
(Or, in my case, a block that's clearly in the United States is deemed as
simply "(somewhere in) Asia".)
What I'm getting at is: IPv6 geolocation is presently rather hopeless and
useless.
Eager to hear thoughts from my fellow network thinkers!
- Blair
