Google incorrect IPv6 GeoIP

Christopher Morrow morrowc.lists at gmail.com
Sat Apr 13 02:04:33 UTC 2013


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Christopher Morrow <
> morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> no you don't... the dreamhost example used the google ARIN allocation
>> 2607:: .... this example uses the 2404 APNIC allocation.
>>
>> note that this may still be 'wrong', but .. it's a different wrong. :)
>>
>
> But likely caused by exactly the same problem - with the distinction
> between between GeoIP of the DNS server and GeoIP of the client itself.
>
> (Keeping in mind that the DNS lookup could be occurring over IPv4,
> especially in the first example)
>


except that the dreamhost example actually looked correct to me? (dreamhost
is in phx / lax or something similar... so a US answer seems on the ball)



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