[179287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Hollis)
Tue Apr 7 18:47:21 2015
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Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:42:00 +0200
From: Fred Hollis <fred@web2objects.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Thanks for sending this to the list: We have the very same issue as well
(both IPv4+IPv6). If someone knows the magic button to solve this,
please contact me as well.
On 08.04.2015 at 00:26 John Levine wrote:
> 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
>
>
