[184082] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeoIP information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Hollis)
Fri Sep 25 03:18:30 2015
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From: Fred Hollis <fred@web2objects.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 09:19:05 +0200
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It is a big pain to do so. We did a couple of times in the past and
always took us many months.
On 25.09.2015 at 03:48 Ian Clark wrote:
> Is there anyone here who has successfully changed their GeoIP data for a
> subset of their ARIN allocation?
> 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!
>
