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RE: ISP's Contact List
From: Daniel Senie <dts () senie com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:41:15 -0400
At 10:18 AM 6/13/2005, Sanfilippo, Ted wrote:
Suresh, Sorry I meant GEOBYTES --- http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htmWhen 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.
Well, I just looked up addresses in a few of my blocks, and geobytes either had wrong info or no info.
If you're the ISP, then your answer to your customers is "the web site you are going to is using an unreliable method to attempt to determine locality from IP address."
Then point them at the web site's contact form and suggest they complain to the web site owner.
As you've already noted, ARIN got the info correct. I suspect there are multiple vendors attempting to provide IP address to GPS address services. I doubt any of them will be 100% reliable, but clearly there is an interest in such services.
Current thread:
- ISP's Contact List Sanfilippo, Ted (Jun 13)
- Re: ISP's Contact List Janet Sullivan (Jun 13)
- Re: ISP's Contact List Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jun 13)
- Re: ISP's Contact List Bill Woodcock (Jun 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: ISP's Contact List Sanfilippo, Ted (Jun 13)
- Message not available
- RE: ISP's Contact List Daniel Senie (Jun 13)
- IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List) william(at)elan.net (Jun 13)
- Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List) william(at)elan.net (Jun 13)
- Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List) Hank Nussbacher (Jun 13)
- Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List) william(at)elan.net (Jun 13)
- Re: IP->Country Data (RE: ISP's Contact List) Edward B. Dreger (Jun 18)
- Message not available
- Re: ISP's Contact List Michael Painter (Jun 13)
- Re: ISP's Contact List Peter Corlett (Jun 14)