Den 2017-09-13 kl. 13:52, skrev Per Jessen:
No. It does not work like that. RIPE-db is at best considered if there is no other option. Trust me on this. Been doing IP registry for 23 years now. Okay, how about explaining how it does work then?
It is empirical findings. Especially the country field in inetnum (see below). When it comes to Maxmind no one except Maxmind them self can say how it really works. But it is not country code in inetnum in ripe-db as a first criteria. Maybe the last one and sometimes even not that. Maxmind said in some old correspondence with me that they do traceroute and ping to triangulate the position of an IP address. When I started to get phone calls and emails about IP addresses in "wrong" region I contacted Maxmind (and others. ip2location, akamai etc.) to correct the data. At that point you could email data about the network and somebody changed it. I sent exactly the same we had in ripe-db as inetnum and it got changed. But they never took a second look in ripe-db. At that point I gathered that they probably had trawled the database at some point and didn't bother to do it again. Why? I don't know. Today it's worse. You have to fill in a web form to get things corrected. And even at that point you don't have any guarantees that it will be corrected. We, as owner of large IP range, don't have any say in what info the glue to our IP adresses. Maxmind is selling incorrect info and people seems to be okay with that. Check this out: https://support.maxmind.com/geoip-data-correction-request/ And especially this: "this process may take 2-3 weeks. We do not accept requests to change anonymous proxy or VPN IP addresses. We do not guarantee acceptance of all corrections." -- /bengan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org