At 08:44 PM 19-12-07 -0500, Drew Weaver wrote:
I too would be interested to know how others feel about the various
geo-location services available to speed things along. Three that come to
mind are Akamai, Neustar/Ultradns and the "roll your own" Cisco GSS
4492R. How do they stack up? How good are the various Maxmind files?
Thanks,
Hank
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)....
More unfortunate than this fact, is the fact that it appears that
services and application providers such as google are caching RIR data
for an "unknown" amount of time. Which means that if a service provider
SWIPs an allocation to a customer (lets use the same example... again in
India) (say a /24) to a user, and then that user subsequently returns
that allocation and the service provider re-allocates in smaller blocks
to different customers in say /29, /28.. et cetera... the problems
related to this issue are compounded (30 customers being affected,
instead of one...) by this caching...
Obviously providing RIR information is the responsibility of
service providers (it is even ARIN's policy) has anyone else in the
community ran into issues such as this and found solutions or workarounds?
Happy holidays to all on NANOG :D
Thanks,
-Drew