Anyone have contacts for Akamai GeoIP

Thu Mar 3 00:15:20 UTC 2022

Yup.. ping me with the details off-list

- Jared

> On Mar 2, 2022, at 7:02 PM, Christopher Munz-Michielin <christopher at ve7alb.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hey All,
> 
> Hoping someone has a contact at Akamai who can assist.
> 
> As part of my day job I run a DNS network and we've been having issues with Akamai mis-locating the geolocation of some of our revolvers.  The most egregious example is our resolver in Frankfurt being classified as Australian, but there are some other instances as well.
> 
> This is an issue because we run fully recursive revolvers, so when a customer queries our DNS server, we attempt to resolve the domain directly against the authoritative name servers (Akamai in this case).  Because Akamai has mis-located our IPs, we get handed an IP in the wrong hemisphere and our customers experience 200+ ms latency to sites that should be regional.
> 
> We've tried reaching out via a couple of channels but have not gotten anything back, wondering if anyone on the list knows a contact address for Akamai GeoIP we can submit corrections to.
> 
> Cheers,