BGP routing ARIN space in APNIC region

Sat Jun 10 16:33:04 UTC 2023

On 6/9/23 21:54, Matt Harris wrote:

>
> I would also note that, from an end-user perspective if we're talking 
> about ISP services to customers on both ends here, you may run into 
> geolocation issues where some geolocation providers decide that 
> many/all of your users are in one location or the other, creating 
> problems for them both with performance when they are misdirected to 
> the wrong frontend servers, as well as in terms of convenience if they 
> are being served content in the wrong location, or service issues 
> related to access to streaming services, etc.

This is solvable by slicing your IPv4 prefixes into /24's and assigning 
them the correct country TLD in the ARIN WHOIS database. Yes, you might 
need to call a few geo-location providers to fix their back-end 
manually, but this is possible.

Even simpler for IPv6.

Mark.
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