[185589] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: speedtest vs geo-coding IP info
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Wed Oct 28 18:56:38 2015
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 17:56:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Agreed. If you have more than a /29, it needs to be SWIPed to you regardles=
s. Then you have a little more authority with getting GeoIP changes made.=
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From: "Josh Luthman" <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com>=20
To: "Lorell Hathcock" <lorell@hathcock.org>=20
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Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 5:40:59 PM=20
Subject: Re: speedtest vs geo-coding IP info=20
Your block should be SWIP'ed irrelevant of geolocation/Speedtest server/etc=
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if it's sizable.=20
Josh Luthman=20
Office: 937-552-2340=20
Direct: 937-552-2343=20
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org>=20
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> Very helpful. Another also helped me track down that Ookla uses=20
> MaxMind.com for their GeoIP data. I was able to submit a GeoIP location=
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> correction request. A guy at speedtest.net suggested that MaxMind may=20
> pay me no mind because my upstream ISP may need to submit the request.=20
> 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!=20
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> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com]=20
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 28, 2015 4:18 PM=20
> *To:* Lorell Hathcock <lorell@hathcock.org>=20
> *Cc:* NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>=20
> *Subject:* Re: speedtest vs geo-coding IP info=20
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> Best resource: http://nanog.cluepon.net/index.php/GeoIP=20
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> Been down for a good long time now=20
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> This is the only copy I know of it:=20
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> http://web.archive.org/web/20130122055317/http://nanog.cluepon.net/index.=
php/GeoIP=20
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20130122055317/http:/nanog.cluepon.net/index.=
php/GeoIP>=20
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> Josh Luthman=20
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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:06 PM, <lorell@hathcock.org> wrote:=20
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> Legions of NANOG:=20
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> Here's an interesting problem.=20
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> My customers are running speedtests from Ookla's speedtest.net site. The=
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> default site is in Kansas and not in Texas where we receive our internet=
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> connection.=20
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> Questions:=20
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> 1. How do I go about viewing the geo-coded data that accompanies my=20
> IP=20
> addresses? This is obviously a database that is kept for geo-coding=20
> purposes. The whois info for the block in question traces back to a=20
> superblock formerly owned by PSINet, Inc and has a Washington, DC address=
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> I conclude that the geo-coding used by speedtest.net is not from the whoi=
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> database.=20
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> 2. If I pestered my carrier to SWIP the IP address block to me (as=20
> they should have?) would that help me solve my problem?=20
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> 3. Is there anything else I need to be thinking of that would help me=20
> have better control of my geo-coding info? Are there third-party self sig=
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> up/volunteer database which house geo-coding info?=20
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> Thanks in advance!=20
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> Sincerely,=20
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> Lorell Hathcock=20
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