Youtube / IPv6 / Netherlands

Thu Jun 25 15:33:59 UTC 2015

On 6/25/15 07:49, Jared Mauch wrote:
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>> On Jun 25, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Phil Rosenthal <pr at isprime.com> wrote:
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>>> On Jun 25, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> geolocation is hard :(
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>> If you would like to see how Google has your geolocation set, check:
>> curl http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping
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>> You might want to force it both IPv4 and IPv6 to see if there is any difference.
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> And run it a few times, because it may think your IP in asia is in Amsterdam, etc..
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> [jared at eng0 ~]$ curl -4 http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping
> 203.105.73.114 => ams09x03 : superx_isp_number: 8 (203.105.64.0/20) [s]
> [jared at eng0 ~]$ curl -4 http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping
> 203.105.73.114 => sjc07x04 : superx_isp_number: 1 (203.105.64.0/20) [u]

Maybe its actually telling you where youtube is serving videos from for 
that IP address, in realtime, based on a large number of variables only 
one of which is where on the Earth that IP might be located.

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> - Jared
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