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
Hi Ray,
Unfortunately I'd say you are out of luck. You could update the 'descr' attributes in the address whois entry to include the full address (ie how you want it seen) and potentially the address details if the admin-c and tech-c are at the same location in the hop that it get's 'picked up'. Or contact the GeoIP providers directly.
GeoIP providers populate their database from many different sources, some crowd sourced, some not, some contradictory, some not. This means that the content providers who use such sources (and that number is growing) do so at best effort and the impact on the eyeballs of the ISP's customer is often understated.
Moving forward, there are two exploratory efforts in this area, one by the RIPE-NCC to put location details in the whois (by either HELD reference or coordinates) [https://labs.ripe.net/Members/denis/example-usage-of-ripe-database-geolocati...] and an effort to place the same in signed objects in the RPKI [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-manderson-sidr-geo-01]. Both have positives and negatives associated due to the technologies they use.
Again, best of luck.
Cheers
Terry
On 18/12/2011, at 12:32 PM,
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
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