Re: Anyone have contacts for Akamai GeoIP

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

Yup.. ping me with the details off-list

- Jared

> On Mar 2, 2022, at 7:02 PM, Christopher Munz-Michielin <christopher () ve7alb ca> wrote:
>
> Hey All,
>
> Hoping someone has a contact at Akamai who can assist.
>
> As part of my day job I run a DNS network and we've been having issues with Akamai mis-locating the geolocation of 
> some of our revolvers.  The most egregious example is our resolver in Frankfurt being classified as Australian, but 
> there are some other instances as well.
>
> This is an issue because we run fully recursive revolvers, so when a customer queries our DNS server, we attempt to 
> resolve the domain directly against the authoritative name servers (Akamai in this case).  Because Akamai has 
> mis-located our IPs, we get handed an IP in the wrong hemisphere and our customers experience 200+ ms latency to 
> sites that should be regional.
>
> We've tried reaching out via a couple of channels but have not gotten anything back, wondering if anyone on the list 
> knows a contact address for Akamai GeoIP we can submit corrections to.
>
> Cheers,