[188706] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Anderson)
Wed Apr 13 05:42:26 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Nathan Anderson <nathana@fsr.com>
To: 'Todd Crane' <todd.crane@n5tech.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 02:41:54 -0700
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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