Updating Geolocation of /24 within corporate /16

Richard Hesse richard.hesse at weebly.com
Wed Feb 22 00:27:21 UTC 2017


If you have a peering session with Google or one of their cache boxes, you
can set a GeoIP publishing endpoint using their online portal at
isp.google.com. That's only for Google though.

-richard

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:19 AM, David Sotnick <sotnickd-nanog at ddv.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tyler,
>
> I have not yet tried this, but am doing so now, thanks!
>
> -Dave
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Tyler Conrad <tyler at tgconrad.com> wrote:
>
> > Have you tried submitting a correction to some geolocation services
> > directly yet? Maxmind is pretty heavily used.
> >
> > https://support.maxmind.com/correction-faq/submit-a-
> > correction/how-do-i-submit-a-correction-to-geoip-data/
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, February 9, 2017, David Sotnick <sotnickd-nanog at ddv.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi NANOG,
> >>
> >> You have given good advice on updating IP Geolocation data in the past,
> >> including visiting 'www.google.com' from a mobile device and selecting
> >> "use
> >> exact location [from GPS]". This worked out well for us a few years ago
> >> for
> >> a single IP which we were NATting out of in a new geographic location.
> >>
> >> Now we are in a position where we have been assigned site-local /24 (out
> >> of
> >> the corporation's larger /20 space) networks for a couple of locations
> and
> >> I'm wondering how I go about updating IP Geolocation data to note that
> two
> >> /24 networks are no longer at the Corporate HQ location.
> >>
> >> I understand that when users first start using these site-specific /24
> >> networks, they will be lumped in with the larger /20 space as far as
> their
> >> geolocation goes, but besides the Google/GPS method, is there a
> >> cleaner/better way to do this? Do Geolocation services use SWIP data?
> >> Should I have the /24s have separate SWIP data noting the geo location?
> >> I'd
> >> love a place to be able to say: "This /24 is at this geoloc; this /24 is
> >> at
> >> this geoloc; and the corporate /20 remains where it always has been."
> >>
> >> Many thanks for your insights in this matter,
> >>
> >> -Dave
> >>
> >
>



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