Hello Ray, I'm not familiar with Akamai's secret sauce. But I suppose geolocation databases can be outdated very fast over time and things are getting worst with the ipv4 depletion...
However, if you have a very large number of nodes spread across the globe, you could use rtt and edns0 client subnet to map users and their locations. https://blogs.akamai.com/2013/03/intelligent-user-mapping-in-the-cloud.html https://blogs.akamai.com/2015/08/end-user-mapping-brings-users-closer-to-internet-nirvana.html Regards, Gustavo. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Ray Van Dolson <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone familiar with how Akamai does its geolocation? Presumably they > do more than Maxmind/WHOIS, but I suppose one or both of those could > factor in? > > For those of you with ARIN IP space, do you typically SWIP things to > yourself to help clarify the locations where the IP space physically > resides to feed into Geolocation databases? > > Thanks, > Ray >
