[184059] in North American Network Operators' Group
GeoIP information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Clark)
Thu Sep 24 19:00:35 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Ian Clark <ian.clark@dreamhost.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:58:55 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
How do service providers get all the GeoIP companies to have correct
information for their address ranges? Do they just pay them to update it?
At first I thought it had to do with whois data, but my home Verizon IP
whois lists Ashburn, VA, yet the GeoIP data shows my local city.
We're trying to find a way to correct our GeoIP data for a specific IP
range, but aren't sure what the best practices are for doing so. Any
advice would be awesome!
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Ian Clark
Network Engineer
DreamHost
