[184070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeoIP information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Clark)
Thu Sep 24 21:15:16 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20150925005219.GA23573@esri.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:12:18 -0700
From: Ian Clark <ian.clark@dreamhost.com>
To: Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@esri.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sep 24, 2015 5:54 PM, "Ray Van Dolson" <rvandolson@esri.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 08:47:56PM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
wrote:
> > > On 25 Sep 2015, at 5:58, Ian Clark wrote:
> > >> Any advice would be awesome!
> > > There is no inherent correlation between IP addressing and
geopolitical
> > > boundaries.
> >
> > Maxmind does not concur.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bill Herrin
>
> I've recently SWIP'd some IP space to see if Maxmind would pick up the
> new location. 48 hours later it hasn't (just via their free, web-based
> query tool). Perhaps I need to be more patient.
>
> Ray
We did the same thing about a week ago, including a correction request with
maxmind to no avail, hence this thread. I have a feeling our patience won't
be rewarded...
