[185588] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: speedtest vs geo-coding IP info
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Luthman)
Wed Oct 28 18:42:27 2015
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From: Josh Luthman <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:40:59 -0400
To: Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Your block should be SWIP'ed irrelevant of geolocation/Speedtest server/etc
if it's sizable.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org>
wrote:
> All:
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> Very helpful. Another also helped me track down that Ookla uses
> MaxMind.com for their GeoIP data. I was able to submit a GeoIP location
> correction request. A guy at speedtest.net suggested that MaxMind may
> pay me no mind because my upstream ISP may need to submit the request.
> That makes perfect sense to me, but it doesn=E2=80=99t hurt to try I hope=
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> Thanks NANOG! You=E2=80=99re the best!
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> -L
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> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 28, 2015 4:18 PM
> *To:* Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org>
> *Cc:* NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
> *Subject:* Re: speedtest vs geo-coding IP info
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> Best resource: http://nanog.cluepon.net/index.php/GeoIP
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> Been down for a good long time now
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> This is the only copy I know of it:
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> http://web.archive.org/web/20130122055317/http://nanog.cluepon.net/index.=
php/GeoIP
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20130122055317/http:/nanog.cluepon.net/index.=
php/GeoIP>
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> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:06 PM, <lorell@hathcock.org> wrote:
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> Legions of NANOG:
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> Here's an interesting problem.
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> My customers are running speedtests from Ookla's speedtest.net site. The
> default site is in Kansas and not in Texas where we receive our internet
> connection.
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> Questions:
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> 1. How do I go about viewing the geo-coded data that accompanies my
> IP
> addresses? This is obviously a database that is kept for geo-coding
> purposes. The whois info for the block in question traces back to a
> superblock formerly owned by PSINet, Inc and has a Washington, DC address=
.
> I conclude that the geo-coding used by speedtest.net is not from the whoi=
s
> database.
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> 2. If I pestered my carrier to SWIP the IP address block to me (as
> they should have?) would that help me solve my problem?
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> 3. Is there anything else I need to be thinking of that would help =
me
> have better control of my geo-coding info? Are there third-party self si=
gn
> up/volunteer database which house geo-coding info?
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Sincerely,
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> Lorell Hathcock
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> Chief Technology Officer
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