Re: Using RIR info to determine geographic location...

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- Drew Weaver <drew.weaver () thenap com> wrote:

> Is this becoming a more common or less common practice as we slide
> ourselves into the last week of 2007? The reason I am wondering is we have
> noticed some 'issues' recently where correct info in the RIR causes very
> inefficient and sometimes annoying interaction with some of the world's
> largest online applications (such as Google) lets say for example that a
> customer in India purchases dedicated server or Co-Location hosting at a
> HSP in the United States [very common]. So the RIR shows that the customer
> is in India, so when the customer interacts with any google applications
> google automatically directs this traffic to google.in (or the India
> version of whichever app)....  

Welcome to my world. :-)

In pursuing investigations of criminal activity on the net, we
generally have to revert to good old fashioned elbow-grease (and
using your noodle) instead of automated geo-location tools for
exactly this reason -- they are more & more irrelevant for
determining the real location of an endpoint.

$.02,

- - ferg

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