[188664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Mon Apr 11 17:41:25 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: nanog@nanog.org, "Chris Boyd" <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:41:21 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1460393711.14814.2.camel@beagle>
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:55:11 -0400, Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
wrote:
> Interesting article.
>
> http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/
...
"Until you reached out to us, we were unaware that there were issues..."
Bull! I can dig up dozens (if not hundreds) of emails from coworkers and
customers who have complained to MaxMind about their asinine
we-don't-have-a-frakin-clue results. They've known for years! They're paid
for a definitive answer, not an "unknown", which is why the default answer
is the same near-the-center-of-the-country lat/lon. He, personally, may
have had no idea, but MaxMind The Company did/does.
