Hello Ray, I'm not familiar with Akamai's secret sauce. But I suppose geolocation databases can be outdated very fast over time and things are getting worst with the ipv4 depletion... However, if you have a very large number of nodes spread across the globe, you could use rtt and edns0 client subnet to map users and their locations. https://blogs.akamai.com/2013/03/intelligent-user-mapping-in-the-cloud.html https://blogs.akamai.com/2015/08/end-user-mapping-brings-users-closer-to-int... Regards, Gustavo. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@esri.com> wrote:
Anyone familiar with how Akamai does its geolocation? Presumably they do more than Maxmind/WHOIS, but I suppose one or both of those could factor in?
For those of you with ARIN IP space, do you typically SWIP things to yourself to help clarify the locations where the IP space physically resides to feed into Geolocation databases?
Thanks, Ray