Re: Using RIR info to determine geographic location...

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- -- Drew Weaver <drew.weaverthenap.com> wrote:

>Is this becoming a more common or less common practice
as we slide
>ourselves into the last week of 2007? The reason I am
wondering is we have
>noticed some 'issues' recently where correct info in the
RIR causes very
>inefficient and sometimes annoying interaction with some
of the world's
>largest online applications (such as Google) lets say
for example that a
>customer in India purchases dedicated server or
Co-Location hosting at a
>HSP in the United States [very common]. So the RIR shows
that the customer
>is in India, so when the customer interacts with any
google applications
>google automatically directs this traffic to google.in
(or the India
>version of whichever app)....  
>

Welcome to my world. 

In pursuing investigations of criminal activity on the net,
we
generally have to revert to good old fashioned elbow-grease
(and
using your noodle) instead of automated geo-location tools
for
exactly this reason -- they are more & more irrelevant
for
determining the real location of an endpoint.

$.02,

- - ferg

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