Providing GeoIP information for servers

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 05/11/2017 10:46 AM, Timothe Litt wrote:
> On 10-May-17 17:50, John W. Blue wrote:
>> >From the it-could-be-worse department:
>>
>> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/kansas-couple-sues-ip-mapping-firm-for-turning-their-life-into-a-digital-hell/
>>
>> I am more a fan of continental geolocation accuracy when it comes to IP addresses.
>>
>> John
> If your static IP address has a reverse name in DNS, it's a short hop 
> through whois to your actual location.
>
> Well, usually. It is possible that none of the contact addresses are 
> where the IP address is located - especially for large organizations. 
> And there are the whois proxies that obscures your physical location.

My whois information is there, if someone wanted to know.

But I was thinking to get the LOC for city hall and use that. 
Police/fire are right next door.  :)

We don't have any above-ground water to use for the GPS LOC  ;)

Afterall, my desire is to show that my servers are in Oak Park, not 
Plymouth MI.

>
> Still, it's pretty hard to hide.  (Even in a Kansas lake.)
>
> Depending on your situation, you may wish to have different accuracy 
> and/or precision in internal and external LOC records.
>
> But on the original topic:  Contact Maxmind and see if they'll fix 
> your address. 
> https://support.maxmind.com/geoip-data-correction-request/ They may 
> require evidence that Comcast has delegated the address to you.

Worth doing.  I have the contract for the static address assignment.

>
> Timothe Litt
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>> ________________________________________
>> From: bind-users<bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org>  on behalf of Mark Andrews<marka at isc.org>
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>>
>> AFAIK Maxmind et al don't lookup LOC records.  That being said if
>> enough people published LOC records they might start.
>>
>> For Google you can update the location using a app which uses the
>> phone's GPS.
>>
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