Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

[David Cantrell <david () cantrell org uk>]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:14:15PM -0500, Theodore Baschak wrote:
> > On Apr 12, 2016, at 7:10 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
> > On 2016-04-11 13:22, Ken Chase wrote:
> > > Well they DO know the IP location is within the USA - 
> > A friend in Australia was with an ISP onwed by a US firm and his IP
> > address often geolocated to the USA.
> Similarly, IPv6 space thats been originated by a Canadian org, in Canada for 4 or 5 years is still shown as in the 
> USA. 

There are similar problems with phone numbers. Google's libphonenumber,
for example, will tell you that +1 855 266 7269 is in the US. It's not,
it's Canadian. It appears that for any NANP "area code" that isn't
assigned to a particular place libphonenumber just says "it's in the US"
instead of "it's in one of the NANP countries".

They appear to have a similar bug with Russia/Kazakhstan.

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David Cantrell