[184072] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeoIP information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Sep 24 21:25:03 2015
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:24:34 -0400
To: Ian Clark <ian.clark@dreamhost.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Ian Clark <ian.clark@dreamhost.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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...
Maxmind would have to violate ARIN's rules to collect your geoip
information through a feed of whois data. Those rules forbid
republication of the data.
Try contacting them directly. Then download the files they publish and
check for yourself.
https://support.maxmind.com/geoip-data-correction-request/
http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/
When you've done these things and still haven't gotten satisfaction,
perhaps then it's time to return here for a session of Name and Shame.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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