ISP's Contact List

Mon Jun 13 19:12:59 UTC 2005

At 10:18 AM 13-06-05 -0400, Sanfilippo, Ted wrote:

>Suresh,

Broken.  My IP, which has been allocated to Israel for about 15 years shows 
up as in China and no whois site is *that* broken.

-Hank

>         Sorry I meant GEOBYTES --- http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm
>         When I enter my new /16 at this site it translates to Canada and 
> it shouldn't. ARIN reports the address properly on the ARIN lookup. I 
> have sent emails to the Geobytes website two weeks ago, they confirmed to 
> me they have the email, but have done nothing to date to fix the problem. 
> So my customers are getting a little upset because when they go to a 
> website they are directed to the .ca portion.
>
>Ted
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:ops.lists at gmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:04 AM
>To: Sanfilippo, Ted
>Cc: nanog at merit.edu
>Subject: Re: ISP's Contact List
>
>
>On 13/06/05, Sanfilippo, Ted <Ted.Sanfilippo at paetec.com> wrote:
> >
> >    Also, I ran into a problem with a new /16 block we received from ARIN.
> > The IP-Country info points to Canada which is not accurate. We are a US
> > based company. I had placed a request into Geobyte to make the change 
> to US,
> > I am still waiting. Does anyone know if there is a central database that
> > these companies pull from to gather country info? If its ARIN, it should
> > have been corrected.
> >
>
>Sorry if I seem dense but how or where does geobyte come into the
>picture at all when you receive an IP block from ARIN.  If the contact
>information for that /16 has an error in it, then ARIN has a fairly
>well documented procedure to change contact information for a netblock
>and you can follow it.
>
>Geobytes seems to use ARIN data along with what is basically wild
>guessing to find where an IP is located.  If they make a wrong guess -
>its an issue thats localized to them.
>
>--
>Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)
>
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