Providing geofeed info to Google
Hugo Slabbert
hugo at slabnet.com
Tue Aug 30 20:28:18 UTC 2022
Gonna multi-reply on this one:
@Benjamin:
> I was able to get access without peering with 15169 by getting access to
the ISP portal (isp.google.com) which does have Geofeed processing for my
AS, but I am unsure if you will get access without being an eyeball network.
Thanks; I'll give that bash. I think our org might have tried this
previously before my time, but will see where we get to.
@Christopher:
> For what it's worth I attempted to get access by filling out the same
portal and was told to go pound sand, so your results may very.
Good to know. :fingers-crossed:
@Job:
Thanks! I was aware of the RIPE whois option, but the relevant resources
for us are in ARIN. I wasn't aware of the RPSL *remark* option for
providing that. We should be able to give that a bash.
Can anyone confirm if Google respects the remark-based option? Given the
authors and some of the wording, I would hope so?
--
Hugo Slabbert
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:48 PM Job Snijders <job at fastly.com> wrote:
> Dear Hugo,
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:34:41PM -0700, Hugo Slabbert wrote:
> > Google folks:
> >
> > I see historical reference to needing to use the Google Peering Portal (
> > http://peering.google.com) if you need to provide Google with geofeed
> info
> > for GeoIP info on network blocks, ref
> > https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2015-May/075229.html.
> >
> > Is that still the case? Are there any avenues to provide Google with
> > geofeed info if you're *not* currently peering with 15169? Or to get
> access
> > to just the geofeed update portion of the Peering Portal?
>
> (I don't work for Google), but ...
>
> There is a RFC detailing how to find Geofeed data (and make Geofeed data
> findable): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9092
>
> The idea is that in inetnum/inet6num objects (which are maintained by
> the IP prefix holder), the holder can point to the location where
> Geofeed data can be found.
>
> There are a few methods:
>
> 1) Use the 'geofeed:' RPSL attribute (the RIPE Whois server supports
> this), example:
>
> $ whois -h whois.ripe.net 146.75.0.0/16 | grep geofeed
> geofeed: https://ip-geolocation.fastly.com/
>
> 2) A slightly uglier hack: stick a reference to the Geofeed location in
> a RPSL remark (should work in databases which don't (yet) support the
> 'geofeed:' attribute), example:
>
> $ whois -h whois.ripe.net 2001:67c:208c::/48 | grep Geofeed
> remarks: Geofeed https://sobornost.net/geofeed.csv
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job
>
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