[81471] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP's Contact List
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Jun 13 09:04:48 2005
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:34:22 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Sanfilippo, Ted" <Ted.Sanfilippo@paetec.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4C4E171C33ADBF43BFFE42978E1708C954DC9C@mail1-corp.corp.paetec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 13/06/05, Sanfilippo, Ted <Ted.Sanfilippo@paetec.com> wrote:
> =20
> Also, I ran into a problem with a new /16 block we received from ARIN.
> The IP-Country info points to Canada which is not accurate. We are a US
> based company. I had placed a request into Geobyte to make the change to =
US,
> I am still waiting. Does anyone know if there is a central database that
> these companies pull from to gather country info? If its ARIN, it should
> have been corrected.=20
> =20
Sorry if I seem dense but how or where does geobyte come into the
picture at all when you receive an IP block from ARIN. If the contact
information for that /16 has an error in it, then ARIN has a fairly
well documented procedure to change contact information for a netblock
and you can follow it.
Geobytes seems to use ARIN data along with what is basically wild
guessing to find where an IP is located. If they make a wrong guess -
its an issue thats localized to them.
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
