[179295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Reynolds)
Wed Apr 8 01:31:14 2015
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:29:55 -0800
From: Josh Reynolds <josh@spitwspots.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAA5Ek4dk3X=m=vASsAWmA1OG5YZp0WWQijsg3-LHEcS3KUGqfQ@mail.gmail.com>
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maxmind is the company that does it for speedtest.net
So if you've ever wondered why your IP blocks still show up as coming
from your upstream and not you, well, that's why.
/hard_learned_trade_secret
On 04/07/2015 03:17 PM, Blair Trosper wrote:
> No, Google has their own internal system. Doubt MaxMind will help out.
>
> This discussions and others like it may lead you in the right direction:
> https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/fkyem9xUKOQ
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Aaron C. de Bruyn <aaron@heyaaron.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You might try here: https://www.maxmind.com/en/correction
>>
>> -A
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Fred Hollis <fred@web2objects.com> 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
>>>>
