How to Fix IP GEO for google/youtube tv

Thu Mar 11 20:05:54 UTC 2021

>How do you know that the OP's problem hasn't been resolved?

I asked him.  He said "no".  Do we have to debate the opinion of fixed or
what no means?

>Presuming the OP did leverage the suggestions that I provided, how can
you say "no resolution" when it's been ~2 hours for a process that I
indicated takes order of weeks?

His email: Mar 8, 2021, 10:08 AM (3 days ago)
The current date and time: 3:03 PM Thursday, March 11, 2021 (EST)

You do the math.

>> once again is a testament to how Google responds to this problem.

>Based on your logic, the entire email industry must actually want spam
because all efforts to the contrary have failed to stop it.

Well since I don't get any spam in my mailbox, I'd say it is fixed.

Not sure this thread is going anywhere besides downhill so unless there's
anything productive to contribute on the topic at hand, resolving Google's
geoip, I'm out.

Josh Luthman
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 2:58 PM Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
wrote:

> On 3/11/21 12:28 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
> > Based on how difficult it is to correct their data for them at no
> > charge, I'm not sure he's entirely wrong in that statement.
>
> Difficult of doing something is not directly related to people's
> willingness / desire to do it.
>
> I can guarantee you that there are Google employees who do want to have
> GeoIP (and other) information as correct as possible.  Said employees
> are grateful for such corrections.  Said employees try to process such
> corrections as expediently and efficiently as possible.
>
> I can make this guarantee because I know / have witnessed multiple
> Google employees that have submitted and followed up on multiple GeoIP
> corrections.
>
> I'm certain that there are still errors in Google's GeoIP data.  But I'm
> equally certain that multiple Google employees /do/ /wanna/ /improve/
> /it/ (the GeoIP data).
>
> > The fact that this thread exists, the latest of multiple, and has ended
> > in no resolution to the problem
>
> How do you know that the OP's problem hasn't been resolved?
>
> How do you know that the OP hasn't leveraged either of the suggestions
> that I provided?
>
> Presuming the OP did leverage the suggestions that I provided, how can
> you say "no resolution" when it's been ~2 hours for a process that I
> indicated takes order of weeks?
>
> > once again is a testament to how Google responds to this problem.
>
> Based on your logic, the entire email industry must actually want spam
> because all efforts to the contrary have failed to stop it.
>
> No, the email industry does not /want/ spam.
> Yes Google has problems.
> No, Google's problems do not accurately reflect the desires of the
> employees.
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>
>
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