[188674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Apr 12 01:08:37 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 08:08:29 +0300
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On 12/04/2016 00:41, Ricky Beam wrote:
> 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.
>
Its called class action lawsuit.
-Hank
