[188702] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Crane)
Wed Apr 13 02:06:31 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Todd Crane <todd.crane@n5tech.com>
In-Reply-To: <570D8FFF.7040105@vaxination.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 22:57:42 -0700
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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I like (sarcasm) how everybody here either wants to point fingers at =
MaxMind or offer up coordinates to random places knowing that it will =
never happen. What ever happened to holding people responsible for being =
stupid. When did it start becoming ((fill in the blank)) coffee shop=E2=80=
=99s for you burning your tongue on your coffee, etc. I=E2=80=99ve =
seen/used all sorts of geolocation solutions and never once thought to =
myself that when a map pin was in the middle of a political boundary, =
that the software was telling me anything other than the place was =
somewhere within the boundary. Furthermore, most geolocation services =
will also show a zoomed-out/in map based on certainty. So if you can see =
more than a few hundred miles in the map that only measures 200x200 =
pixels, then it probably isn=E2=80=99t that accurate.
As to a solution, why don=E2=80=99t we just register the locations (more =
or less) with ARIN? Hell, with the amount of money we all pay them in =
annual fees, I can=E2=80=99t imagine it would be too hard for them to =
maintain. They could offer it as part of their public whois service or =
even just make raw data files public.
Just a though
=E2=80=94Todd
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