Hey Paschal,

I've had this same issue previously with some geolocation DBs not reflecting locations correctly. I managed to fix the issue by maintaining a public RFC8805 geofeed and submitting it to the various DB providers via email and allowing them to poll it frequently for any updates. Here are a majority of the emails you would need to contact with your published geofeed, if you choose to implement one:

Feel free to use the following template using the subject of "Geofeed for <ASN>" which I successfully used to have the above providers update their databases (with a majority of updates published within a week or so):

Hello,

Please use this geofeed for our IPs going forward.

<Link_to_published_geofeed>

Thanks.

Hope this information helps accomplish what you need!

Regards,

Peter

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 6:09 AM Paschal Masha <paschal.masha@ke.wananchi.com> wrote:

Hello,

Not sure whether anyone out there is also experiencing this, seems MAX MIND (https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-precision-demo ) geo database is extremely out of sync with whois records on RIRs DBs.

It's ok(not 100%) to submit corrections for a few(if not less than few) blocks, but getting it all wrong for more that 4 to many blocks- that's a big deal..especially when other services( like, whatsmyip), believe you more that other DBs

e.g 102.217.58.0/24 an AFRNIC allocation, appears in Turkey on MAX MIND, while ip2location and other geoDBs correctly displays this.

IS there anyone- with power- from MAX MIND in this list that can help out? Please contact me offlist - sorry for the broadcast to the other members.

Regards
Paschal Masha | Engineering
Skype ID: paschal.masha

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