Hello,
> Is anybody of you aware, how the most popular services (Google,
> Zattoo, Facebook, etc) are matching geographic locations to
> ip-adresses ?
Probably a mix between some sources of GeoIP DB such as
MaxMind/ip2location, a mix of home-made database (ASN, IPs, latency) and
obviously browser locales settings.
Each probably handle it in a different way.
> Now we have a customer located in Germany, so I created a
> inetnum-block with his subnet in ripe-db with country-code DE.
> This was a week ago. The customer is still complaining that he is
> constantly redirected to the swiss-versions of all the services.
You should maybe have given a /24 PI rather than chunking one of your
main IP block. I am sure those Geolocating-guy would lookup more often
/24 PI than /23 PA for instance.
> Does anybody of you experienced a similar problem ? Does anybody knows
> proper solution ?
Yes, had been given a Greek IP space from RIPE about a year ago or so.
After 6-9 months of use it seems that finally most of those GeoIP caught
the new location correctly. Only solution: be patient.
> actually there's usually much more information than just country code.
> At least sites like http://adultfriendsfinder.com/ show my town
quite > precisely, and my IP is a part of a huge Cablecom pool.
Quite true. They probably got enough money to bust customers.
> I am actually not fully satified with the quality of those ads.
What? The girls doesn't live in your town or they are not hot enough?
Just kidding obviously ;)
> When I still resided somewhere between Baden and Bremgarten I was
> recognised as "Otelfingen" (not a real surprise with a
> Cablecom-connection, right?).
It is maybe done on purpose. I can just imagine if they were to display
one of these "pheromone-friendly" picture and pretend she's from my town
or anywhere close, I would different catch the trap. Best guess, some
MBA marketing told them not to.
This being
> Since I changed to our own VDSL I seem to live in Therwil (BL)
> according to the ads. That's over two years now. And I do certainly
> not speak 'Baseldiitsch'.
Interesting. Then it's really true that each region of Switzerland got
his own sha-encryption of the German? </welshjoke>
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Best Regards,
Gregory Agerba
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