On Jan 18, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Rosenberry, Eric 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>. > > So my questions to others are: > > 1. How do I get my data updated in all of the geolocate providers > databases as quickly as possible? > > 2. What geolocate database does Google use (is it homegrown?) and how > do I get them to update my data?
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/request.py?contact_type=ip If it is urgent / lots of users are grumping at you, feel free to send me an off-list mail including the information asked for on that page and I'll follow up internally. Something that I have often wondered is how folks would feel about publishing some sort of geo information in reverse DNS (something like LOC records, with whatever precision you like) -- this would allow the folks that geo stuff to automagically provide the best answer, and because you control the record, you can specify whatever resolution / precision you like. Based upon the sorry state of existing reverse, I'm suspecting that there is no point.... W > > Thanks. > > -Eric > _______________________________________________________________ > Eric Rosenberry > Sr. Network Engineer | Chief Bit Plumber > > > > iovation > 111 SW Fifth Avenue > Suite 3200 > Portland, OR 97204 > www.iovation.com<http://www.iovation.com/> > > The information contained in this email message may be privileged, > confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended > recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. > If you think that you have received this email message in error, please > notify the sender by reply email and delete the message and any attachments. -- "Beware that the most effective way for someone to decrypt your data may be with rubber hose." --- SSH 1.2.12 README
