On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:27:30 -0800 "Rosenberry, Eric" <[email protected]> wrote: > I just lit up a new IP netblock (assigned directly from ARIN) and the > companies that provide Geolocate databases do not have the correct location > information available yet. > > Specifically Maxmind (http://www.maxmind.com/) thinks we are in Canada and > IP2LOCATION (http://www.ip2location.com/) has no data. > > For the most part this is benign or at worst slightly impacting since I often > get redirected to global load balance nodes up in Canada instead of locally > in the North West, however, the more major issue I am running into is that > Google chooses to redirect all my users to > www.google.ca<http://www.google.ca>.
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