[81496] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ISP's Contact List
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Mon Jun 13 15:17:26 2005
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:12:59 +0300
To: "Sanfilippo, Ted" <Ted.Sanfilippo@PaeTec.com>,
"Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4C4E171C33ADBF43BFFE42978E1708C954DCAA@mail1-corp.corp.pae
tec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 10:18 AM 13-06-05 -0400, Sanfilippo, Ted wrote:
>Suresh,
Broken. My IP, which has been allocated to Israel for about 15 years shows
up as in China and no whois site is *that* broken.
-Hank
> 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
>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.
>
>--
>Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
>
>
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