[179288] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arzhel Younsi)
Tue Apr 7 19:09:30 2015
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From: Arzhel Younsi <xionox@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:09:21 +1200
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The list on http://nanog.peeringdb.com/index.php/GeoIP is useful,
especially if several GeoIP databases return incorrect locations.
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Arzhel
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015, at 10:42, Fred Hollis wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
