Ben,

Specifically to us, we found that some IPs come up as Troy, MI when we are
in Troy, OH.  I recognize the one in Ohio is a tiny town, but we still
exist in this state!  It was a short while ago a customer couldn't access
some baseball thing (MLB?) because their service (our ticket did not
specify how they were getting it - the customer just said it didn't work
because of a location issue) said they were in the wrong state.

We have a geofeed if you do a whois on the ip/block, I don't know if you're
honoring it or not.  To be frank, there's no way us or most any ISP is
going to go through every single IP with a webform.  Just look at the
geofeed.  For one customer or even many I would be unlikely to spend hours
of my time fixing your service.

You can look at 142.248.40.0/22 which was just allocated to us by ARIN a
couple of weeks ago.  You won't see much or any traffic in recent weeks.
This is on our geofeed, however.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM ben--- via NANOG <[email protected]>
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> Hey all,
>
> Ben, founder of IPinfo here. We care deeply about the quality and accuracy
> of our data, so I definitely want to get the issues flagged on this thread
> fixed.
>
> The best way to submit geolocation feedback to us in general is via
> https://ipinfo.io/corrections.
>
> By default we perform a lot of verification and filtering to geofeeds, and
> there's a surprising amount of adversarial data in geofeeds, from providers
> who are incentivised to pretend their IPs are in locations that they're not
> (mostly from proxy and vpn providers, and some hosting providers). It
> sounds like that creating problems for some operators though, and we'll
> look into how we can balance that.
>
> Happy to jump on a call to discuss our data quality and approach to
> geolocation with anyone. And feel free to escalate any data quality issues
> you see directly to me over email too - [email protected]
>
> Thanks, Ben
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