[188697] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Baschak)
Tue Apr 12 20:19:53 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Theodore Baschak <theodore@ciscodude.net>
In-Reply-To: <570D8E58.2030303@vaxination.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:14:15 -0500
To: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Apr 12, 2016, at 7:10 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
>=20
> On 2016-04-11 13:22, Ken Chase wrote:
>> Well they DO know the IP location is within the USA -=20
>=20
>=20
> A friend in Australia was with an ISP onwed by a US firm and his IP
> address often geolocated to the USA.
>=20
Similarly, IPv6 space thats been originated by a Canadian org, in Canada =
for 4 or 5 years is still shown as in the USA.=20
