> On Aug 23, 2025, at 17:25, Tom Beecher via NANOG <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> >> >> I'm curious why it takes a week to adjust one IP block. > > > Content Provider pays the Geolocation Provider for access to their > database. If the Content Provider is fine with the Geolocation Provider > only updating their database weekly, then that's what they will do. The > Geo Provider has no incentive to do updates quicker than the people paying > them require them. By extension, the Content Provider only cares if enough > users are impacted by the problem that they NEED to care. > > The entire geo-ip ecosystem is hot garbage.
This… 100%!! Hot piece of shit! -Mike > > > > >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM Josh Luthman via NANOG < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for closing the loop. >> >> I'm curious why it takes a week to adjust one IP block. It's frustrating >> as a provider to have no ability to fix it and get all of the angry phone >> calls. >> >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 6:14 PM Mike Lyon via NANOG <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> If any eyeball networks are having geo-ip issues that started a week or >> so >>> ago for their customers trying to use HBO, Hulu, Netflix or any others >> that >>> use Digital Elements for their geo-ip, be sure you make Digital Elements >>> aware. >>> >>> Digital Elements ran a process update last week that screwed up a bunch >> of >>> netblocks. See ticket verbatim below. >>> >>> And to top it off, they are holding my customers hostage until a week >> from >>> today when they run the corrective update. >>> >>> Hi Mike, >>> >>> While refining our processes to improve accuracy, some of our changes >>> inadvertently over-corrected existing updates we had in place. We have >>> noticed these and are correcting them currently. This unfortunately was >>> one of the overridden updates. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> Mike Lyon >>> Aug 22, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT >>> >>> Do we know why it changed? >>> >>> On Aug 22, 2025, at 05:03, Data Management <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> *redacted* (Digital Element) >>> Aug 22, 2025, 8:03 AM EDT >>> >>> Hi Mike, >>> >>> We apologize for the inconvenience. We will update this IP range back to >>> the US for our release next Friday, August 29. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> ———————— >>> >>> Fun times… >>> -Mike >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NANOG mailing list >>> >>> >> https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UORMFGBQKLJQXUY2DEUICIL2ICKEWIPT/ >> _______________________________________________ >> NANOG mailing list >> >> https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XUCZBEUNTCR4S3QSMRID55TWQ3P3SNAY/ > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BGDX2K5PMUX6LPCZBCUK4YMNOHIU4J6D/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DGJQVMDGBSDZU4P55N5PBPNUC4E36IHS/
