[81474] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ISP's Contact List
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanfilippo, Ted)
Mon Jun 13 10:21:50 2005
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:18:35 -0400
From: "Sanfilippo, Ted" <Ted.Sanfilippo@PaeTec.com>
To: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Suresh,
Sorry I meant GEOBYTES --- http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm
When I enter my new /16 at this site it translates to Canada and it =
shouldn't. ARIN reports the address properly on the ARIN lookup. I have =
sent emails to the Geobytes website two weeks ago, they confirmed to me =
they have the email, but have done nothing to date to fix the problem. =
So my customers are getting a little upset because when they go to a =
website they are directed to the .ca portion.
Ted
-----Original Message-----
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:ops.lists@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:04 AM
To: Sanfilippo, Ted
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: ISP's Contact List
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)
