Google incorrect IPv6 GeoIP

Heather Schiller hschiller at google.com
Fri Apr 12 14:53:06 UTC 2013


Forwarded to folks I think should be able to help..

 --Heather


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Yang Yu <yang.yu.list at gmail.com> wrote:

> For some reason Google redirects requests from Dreamhost's IPv6 block
> 2607:f298::/32 to google.com.hk
>
> $ wget http://www.google.com
> --2013-04-11 16:06:45--  http://www.google.com/
> Resolving www.google.com... 2607:f8b0:400c:c01::93, 173.194.75.99,
> 173.194.75.147, ...
> Connecting to www.google.com|2607:f8b0:400c:c01::93|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location:
> http://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=p&hl=zh-CN&pref=hkredirect&pval=yes&q=http://www.google.com.hk/&ust=1365721636015681&usg=AFQjCNEa0yI6UdIVf1tqLtCw3qrBC6Akww
> [following]
> --2013-04-11 16:06:46--
>
> http://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=p&hl=zh-CN&pref=hkredirect&pval=yes&q=http://www.google.com.hk/&ust=1365721636015681&usg=AFQjCNEa0yI6UdIVf1tqLtCw3qrBC6Akww
> Resolving www.google.com.hk... 2607:f8b0:400c:c01::6a, 173.194.75.105,
> 173.194.75.99, ...
> Connecting to www.google.com.hk|2607:f8b0:400c:c01::6a|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location: http://www.google.com.hk/ [following]
> --2013-04-11 16:06:46--  http://www.google.com.hk/
> Reusing existing connection to www.google.com.hk:80.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/html]
> Saving to: “index.html”
>
>
> The report IP problem form
> (https://support.google.com/websearch/contact/ip?rd=1) does not think
> IPv6 addresses are valid.
>
> Can someone help with this issue?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Yang
>
>



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