It's not that there is no feasible way for an operator to determine it's an NZ prefix - it's certainly determinable via existing means and the big players already do it with these tests (such as latency) built directly into their web apps.
It's merely a side effect of Mediaworks using g a poor quality technology for their geolocation. Just IMO, and I accept it's not even worth 2c :) > On 23/11/2020, at 11:17 AM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > A traceroute to an address in that /24 from Auckland ends thus: > <snip> > so it is indeed ~180 ms closer than Singapore. Just shows how dodgy > geolocation by IP address is (and always will be). This is something the ISP > has to sort > On 23-Nov-20 10:48, Nathan Ward wrote: >> <snip> >> There’s no feasible way for someone like Mediaworks to know that this is an >> NZ prefix, all the documentation points to Singapore. _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list -- nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz To unsubscribe send an email to nznog-le...@list.waikato.ac.nz
