[nznog] IP to Location services

18 Dec 2011

      We recently went through this exercise when we got new subnets off Apnic. Its not much fun. The large commercial websites (ondemand, trademe, tv3, isky) seem to mostly get their geolocation information from the www.maxmind.com database, so first point of call is to check where maxmind currently has your IPs located (ours were recycled from India)

Eg. http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_demo_ip?ips=202.3.89.2 

You can try and get Maxmind to update their database by sending an email to corrections(a)maxmind.com, but they are terrible at actioning the corrections and only seem to update the database once a month.

Good luck!

Cameron Bendall
Product Manager - Data Services 
Digital Island Limited

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Hi All, 

I have just got a block of IPv4 addresses and am going through the process
of getting everything ready for my customers. 

I therefore have a question about IP to Location services: 

How do I set the location of a particular IP address? 

I thought it would probably be in the whois section of my-apnic but when
looking at the IP address my upstream gives me, there is no mention of the
word Napier in any of the whois fields, but there is the street address of
their office, without the word Napier, and ip2location thinks the ISP name
is their street address. There is no city field- just a country. Yet
ip2location knows that it is in Napier. 

Is there a particular place in the my-apnic portal that I need to look, or
do I need to approach various ip to location services and inform them?

The reason for this is that I want websites like TVNZ Ondemmand and TV3
ondemand to know that my customers are in New Zealand, before I start
assigning them public addresses from my pool. 

Any help is much appreciated, 

Thanks, 

Ray Taylor

Taylor Communications

06-929-9082

021-483-280