Google incorrect IPv6 GeoIP

Fri Apr 12 15:06:02 UTC 2013

Heather,

I see the same thing from my arpnetworks vps

[cbyrne at chair6 ~]$ traceroute6 www.google.com
traceroute6 to www.google.com (2404:6800:4003:801::1010) from
2607:f2f8:a8e0::2, 64 hops                   max, 12 byte packets
 1  2607:f2f8:a8e0::1  1.657 ms  0.976 ms  0.750 ms
 2  2001:504:13::1a  1.728 ms  10.591 ms  0.756 ms
 3  2001:4860:1:1:0:1b1b:0:19  0.873 ms  0.907 ms  0.833 ms
 4  2001:4860::1:0:29b3  1.195 ms  138.964 ms
    2001:4860::1:0:991  1.633 ms
 5  2001:4860::8:0:2996  1.645 ms
    2001:4860::8:0:2995  1.929 ms  1.484 ms
 6  2001:4860::1:0:47  99.059 ms  99.272 ms
    2001:4860::1:0:75  99.079 ms
 7  2001:4860::1:0:298  99.372 ms  111.549 ms  99.972 ms
 8  2001:4860::1:0:26ff  103.146 ms  103.317 ms  103.029 ms
 9  2001:4860::1:0:337f  166.821 ms  203.479 ms  166.468 ms
10  2001:4860:0:1::18f  167.021 ms  167.378 ms  166.896 ms
11  2404:6800:8000:4::e  167.039 ms  167.099 ms  167.254 ms
[cbyrne at chair6 ~]$ dig www.google.com aaaa

; <<>> DiG 9.6.-ESV-R3 <<>> www.google.com aaaa
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50127
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.com.                        IN      AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com.         15      IN      AAAA    2404:6800:4003:801::1010

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
google.com.             271198  IN      NS      ns1.google.com.
google.com.             271198  IN      NS      ns3.google.com.
google.com.             271198  IN      NS      ns2.google.com.
google.com.             271198  IN      NS      ns4.google.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.google.com.         61968   IN      A       216.239.32.10
ns3.google.com.         61968   IN      A       216.239.36.10
ns4.google.com.         61968   IN      A       216.239.38.10
ns2.google.com.         61968   IN      A       216.239.34.10

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 208.79.88.7#53(208.79.88.7)
;; WHEN: Fri Apr 12 08:04:59 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 196

[cbyrne at chair6 ~]$

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Heather Schiller <hschiller at google.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>