On 2018/06/12 13:45, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
> Looks Bulgarian to me, and I'm not even a robotic geocache..
>
> inetnum: 185.161.4.0 - 185.161.7.255
> netname: BG-UEDELTA-20160726
The RIPE db entry looks alright to me, specifically:
> country: GB
^^ this is set correctly
> organisation: ORG-UDPO1-RIPE
> org-name: UE Delta Prod OOD
> org-type: LIR
> address: 10 Stefan Karadzha Street, Office 4
> address: 7002
> address: Ruse
> address: BULGARIA
> phone: +35982518880
The org country shouldn't matter too much, an organisation can have
IP resources in multiple countries, and you can use an LIR from a different
country. The rest of the entry (things like mnt-by, mnt-routes) matches up
with what you might expect to see on a resold block.
> I’ve recently bought an IP block from a Bulgarian ISP for use on our
> network. The block
> is correctly designated as a UK block now, but it appears that a
> bunch of service
> providers still think that it’s eastern block :(, and so I’ve got new
> customers who are
> being rejected from TV services such as NetFlix/BBC iPlayer/catchup
> tv, etc.
>
> Does anyone have a contact any Netflix, or the BBC (or C4/ITV?) that
> I speak to to try
> and get this resolved quickly? It looks like MindMax have it
> correctly designated as UK
> so it’s likely to be a local geocache at the service providers.
There are a bunch of different companies providing geolocation services.
You'll find some of them listed at
https://superuser.com/questions/84891/is-it-possible-to-correct-my-geoip-location
and may need to prod them separately if they don't pick it up quickly enough
by themselves.
One specific problem you will have is that if people are using the old
free MaxMind geolite database, there are *no* more updates, the last one
available lists you in Bulgaria. So people using this will either need
to pay for the commercial database (which still gets updates for a
little while longer) or rewrite their code against the libmaxminddb
API instead which is a lot more to ask of the site operator than "please
update your database to the newest".. Consolation there is that this is
likely to be small/less important sites.
