Google IP Geolocation

Tue Mar 30 00:31:29 UTC 2021

It seems that Geofeed is no longer working starting last week.

Can confirm this with other few server providers with VPN customers. The
geolocation is now the user's REAL location like Asia or Mid-East while the
IP itself is in the US.

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 03:54 Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:

> I've had others at Google specifically say that portal should be used for
> that purpose, so maybe they need to make sure right and left hands know
> what the other is doing.
>
>
>
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
>
> Midwest-IX
> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Josh Luthman" <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
> *To: *"Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *nanog at nanog.org
> *Sent: *Monday, March 29, 2021 1:52:48 PM
> *Subject: *Re: Google IP Geolocation
>
> https://isp.google.com
>
> I signed up for an account there and they said:
>
> "Currently, the Google ISP portal is designed for our partners of GGC, PNI
> or IX programs.
>
> The access to portal is granted on request only to our partners."
>
> Josh Luthman
> 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 2:08 PM Christopher Morrow <
> morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 1:59 PM Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Google ISP specifically told me they didn't want to do deal with
>>> geolocation on the ISP portal.
>>>
>>>
>> unsure who 'google isp' is here, but ... I think if you point at a
>> properly formed geo-location data file it'll get eaten and produce proper
>> results for you.
>> you do have to add that in your isp portal:
>>    tri-pipe-thingy -> configuration -> IP geolocation
>> and /register feed/ button on that page.
>>
>>
>>> Josh Luthman
>>> 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340
>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>> Suite 1337
>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 3:28 PM Christopher Morrow <
>>> morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> As a note, on the ISP portal there's a place to put a link to your
>>>> RFC8805 format geolocation feed...
>>>> these are scraped out 'regularly' and help keep things oriented better
>>>> for folks.
>>>>
>>>> the ietf noc folk use this method to tell google (and other folk who
>>>> scrape out our data) where meetings are before the meetings get there:
>>>>   https://noc.ietf.org/geo/google.csv
>>>>
>>>> -chris
>>>> volunteer noc persona
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 6:43 PM Michael K. Spears <michael at spears.io>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Awesome, I think I’ve figured out the Google ISP portal signup, but it
>>>>> definitely seems semi-complicated in a way, notably finding the link…
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael K. Spears
>>>>>
>>>>> 727.656.3347
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *From:* Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net>
>>>>> *Sent:* Friday, March 26, 2021 6:30 PM
>>>>> *To:* Michael K. Spears <michael at spears.io>
>>>>> *Cc:* nanog at nanog.org
>>>>> *Subject:* Re: Google IP Geolocation
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We're working on a video to show people how to sign up for the ISP
>>>>> portal and get to that part of the portal once signed up. We'll drop a link
>>>>> to it near the Google section of our geolocation page.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----
>>>>> Mike Hammett
>>>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>>>>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Midwest-IX
>>>>> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> *From: *"Michael K. Spears" <michael at spears.io>
>>>>> *To: *nanog at nanog.org
>>>>> *Sent: *Friday, March 26, 2021 5:10:23 PM
>>>>> *Subject: *Google IP Geolocation
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have a good contact at Google who can help with IP geolocation?
>>>>> I have a /24 where anything related to Google is in the wrong language.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael K. Spears
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>
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