Is this becoming a more common or less common practice as we slide
ourselves into the last week of 2007? The reason I am wondering is we have
noticed some 'issues' recently where correct info in the RIR causes very
inefficient and sometimes annoying interaction with some of the world's largest
online applications (such as Google) lets say for example that a customer in
India purchases dedicated server or Co-Location hosting at a HSP in the United
States [very common]. So the RIR shows that the customer is in India, so when
the customer interacts with any google applications google automatically
directs this traffic to google.in (or the India version of whichever app)....
More unfortunate than this fact, is the fact that it appears that
services and application providers such as google are caching RIR data for an
"unknown" amount of time. Which means that if a service provider SWIPs an
allocation to a customer (lets use the same example... again in India) (say a
/24) to a user, and then that user subsequently returns that allocation and the
service provider re-allocates in smaller blocks to different customers in say
/29, /28.. et cetera... the problems related to this issue are compounded (30
customers being affected, instead of one...) by this caching...
Obviously providing RIR information is the responsibility of service
providers (it is even ARIN's policy) has anyone else in the community ran into
issues such as this and found solutions or workarounds?
Happy holidays to all on NANOG :D
Thanks,
-Drew
