Yet I could goto the site, via Ford's network (ssssh, shopping at home) and I'm in the same city as Ford. Go fig -----Original Message----- From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2021 4:48 PM To: Kain, Becki (.) <bkain1@ford.com> Subject: Re: nike.com->nike.com/ca On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:42 PM Kain, Becki (.) <bkain1@ford.com> wrote:
At home, using 8.8.8.8, if I goto https://clicktime.symantec.com/3R152eRtwvwtDYyinkDfVJ87Vc?u=www.nike.c om, I get rerouted to nike.com/ca. I cleared the dns cache (I’m running Catalina macos) and rebooted just because. Anyone else seen a weirdism on this? thanks
Welcome to Why You Shouldn't Make Customer-Visible Decisions Based On DNS Resolver Geolocation or DNS Load Balancing Sucks 101. Nike.com is geolocating the server IP address which requests the web site address. This isn't yours or 8.8.8.8 but instead some unicast IP address to which your 8.8.8.8 packet was routed. Possibly in Canada. Nike appears to think so. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://clicktime.symantec.com/3XJHfJTMqdU2jpHEptZsUfR7Vc?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbi...
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 2:32 PM Kain, Becki (.) <bkain1@ford.com> wrote:
Yet I could goto the site, via Ford's network (ssssh, shopping at home) and I'm in the same city as Ford.
Hi Becki, A couple basic things you could try: plug your public IP address into Whois and see what comes back. Plug it into the Maxmind database and see what comes back. Poke your ISP if either one says Canada. Unless you are the Internet provider, I'd stop there, open a trouble ticket with my ISP and let them worry about it. I'd be dripping with sarcasm if I said that identifying the current physical location of an IP address is an inexact science. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
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