Re: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data?

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Apr 30, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra () wpi edu> wrote:
>
> > I have a customer who received a new assignment from ARIN, but the
> > GeoIP data is returning Canada rather than the US as the location of
> > the IP prefix.  Google redirects to www.google.ca and some other  
> > sites
> > aren't working correctly because they expect a US IP.  Does anyone
> > have any advice on how to update the GeoIP and other similar
> > databases?
>
> Wouldn't a SWIP for a sub-allocation work?
>
> I was under the impression that most of the GeoIP services fed off  
> of WHOIS
> registration data points.
>
> Than again, maybe I have no idea. ;-)

I don't know how Google does GeoIP, but not all of them work off SWIP.

Perhaps Chuck should ask Google instead of NANOG?

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TTFN,
patrick