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Re: Youtube / IPv6 / Netherlands


From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:37:16 -0400


On Jun 25, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Scott Whyte <swhyte () gmail com> wrote:



On 6/25/15 07:49, Jared Mauch wrote:

On Jun 25, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Phil Rosenthal <pr () isprime com> wrote:


On Jun 25, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:

geolocation is hard :(

If you would like to see how Google has your geolocation set, check:
curl http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping

You might want to force it both IPv4 and IPv6 to see if there is any difference.


And run it a few times, because it may think your IP in asia is in Amsterdam, etc..

[jared@eng0 ~]$ curl -4 http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping
203.105.73.114 => ams09x03 : superx_isp_number: 8 (203.105.64.0/20) [s]
[jared@eng0 ~]$ curl -4 http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping
203.105.73.114 => sjc07x04 : superx_isp_number: 1 (203.105.64.0/20) [u]

Maybe its actually telling you where youtube is serving videos from for that IP address, in realtime, based on a 
large number of variables only one of which is where on the Earth that IP might be located.

That might be possible, but sending traffic to Europe vs another site smells
like some other issue.

It’s also interesting to look at the internalized CIDR it’s matching against.

Take puck as an example.

puck:~$ curl http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping -4
204.42.254.5 => ord31x04 : superx_isp_number: 1 (204.42.224.0/19) [u]
puck:~$ curl http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping -6
2001:418:3f4::5 => sjc07s17 (2001:418:200::/39) [u]

Many interesting results as a consequence.

- jared

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