-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com> wrote:

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)....

Welcome to my world. :-) In pursuing investigations of criminal activity on the net, we generally have to revert to good old fashioned elbow-grease (and using your noodle) instead of automated geo-location tools for exactly this reason -- they are more & more irrelevant for determining the real location of an endpoint. $.02, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHadd+q1pz9mNUZTMRAiJ8AJ44SViYTXi6ee5GNLwnzEIZ5VfphQCg6ik7 ABYpXO+8bMDjoRQFMaB8rFs= =ZvFM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/