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Fixing Google geolocation screwups

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Tue Apr 7 18:26:35 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: 7 Apr 2015 22:26:09 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

A friend of mine lives in Alabama and has business service from at&t.
But Google thinks he's in France.  We've checked for various
possibilities of VPNs and proxies and such, and it's pretty clear that
the Goog's geolocation for addresses around 99.106.185.0/24 is screwed
up.  Bing and other services correctly find him in Alabama.

Poking around I see lots of advice about how to use Google's
geolocation data, but nothing on how to update it.  Anyone
know the secret?  TIA

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly



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