Re: GeoIP information

[Jeroen Wunnink <jeroen.wunnink () hibernianetworks com>]

It'd really help if some larger content providers would give LIR's some
tools to effectively manage GeoTargeting within IP allocations and the
subnets therein that they own.
In my experience it takes anywhere between 2 weeks and 6 month to get IP
blocks effectively Geo-targeted.

Google is one of the harder but most visible ones, their online form to
change it doesn't do anything. Going through their NOC usually fixes an
issue within 2-3 weeks. (Google engineers, idea to add tools for that at
https://isp.google.com on a webmaster tool-ish management interface?)

Akamai is usually pretty fast and changing maxmind will eventually
follow up a lot of the remaining sites. But it's a slow process.

Our strategy is generally to change the RIR DB entry to include the
correct country and geoloc fields. Followed by a maxmind update request
and then some direct strings pulled from friendly operator colleagues
and a mail to the Google NOC.



On 25/09/15 09:19, Fred Hollis wrote:
> It is a big pain to do so. We did a couple of times in the past and
> always took us many months.
>
> On 25.09.2015 at 03:48 Ian Clark wrote:
> > Is there anyone here who has successfully changed their GeoIP data for a
> > subset of their ARIN allocation?
> > How do service providers get all the GeoIP companies to have correct
> > information for their address ranges?  Do they just pay them to
> > update it?
> > At first I thought it had to do with whois data, but my home Verizon IP
> > whois lists Ashburn, VA, yet the GeoIP data shows my local city.
> >
> > We're trying to find a way to correct our GeoIP data for a specific IP
> > range, but aren't sure what the best practices are for doing so.  Any
> > advice would be awesome!


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