Google thinks my prefix is in Norway - It's not

[DTCNEO]

So, I'm not exactly sure what to do about this and I was hoping to get some help, or at-least pointed in the right direction. When accessing google.com over IPv6 google is detecting that I'm in Norway, and redirecting me to google.no. If I force my computer to prefer IPv4 over IPv6 I can reach google.com just fine. It appears that google thinks my entire prefix resides in Norway! If it was just me being affected I would just use google.com/ncr, but I have my tunnel configured on my router, which is providing native IPv6 connectivity to my LAN, so all users are being affected. I could also either stop my DNS server from using HE's DNS servers as forward lookup servers, or just disable IPv6 on my LAN, but I'd rather not. Google has a page to report location detection problems, but it only accepts IPv4 addresses and there's nowhere to type a comment. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to resolve this problem?

[broquea]

I think it's a Google problem, since even at the office, I was getting sent to www.google.no, however it was 12ms away, and being in California, that is highly unlikely. Also accessing maps.google.com and other app hostnames, kept me in .com and not go to .no. Since this seems to be an issue on the Google side, I simply changed www.google.no to display in English and fired off an email :)

-edit- took a peek again and everything is now going 174ms away from SFBA, so sent them an updated email.

[jimb]

So, I'm not exactly sure what to do about this and I was hoping to get some help, or at-least pointed in the right direction. When accessing google.com over IPv6 google is detecting that I'm in Norway, and redirecting me to google.no. If I force my computer to prefer IPv4 over IPv6 I can reach google.com just fine. It appears that google thinks my entire prefix resides in Norway! If it was just me being affected I would just use google.com/ncr, but I have my tunnel configured on my router, which is providing native IPv6 connectivity to my LAN, so all users are being affected. I could also either stop my DNS server from using HE's DNS servers as forward lookup servers, or just disable IPv6 on my LAN, but I'd rather not. Google has a page to report location detection problems, but it only accepts IPv4 addresses and there's nowhere to type a comment. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to resolve this problem?

Mebbe they saw your email address and thought you were Thor?

[broquea]

Got a speedy reply from them that their GeoIP team will start looking into it.

[DTCNEO]

Got a speedy reply from them that their GeoIP team will start looking into it.

Good to hear! My boss thought I was playing a joke on her when she came into work yesterday. Apparently she interpreted google.no as no Google, so she asked me why I turned off her access to Google. Was quite a funny conversation actually. I ended up removing Hurricane Electric's DNS server addresses from the list of forwarders our DNS server uses for the time being HE's DNS server is the only whitelisted DNS server we use, so that should stop the complaints at work.

[jonnymmm]

I'm having a similar problem, that started either yesterday or the day before where Google thinks I'm from Canada (I'm actually in California, using Fremont 2).

[alanho]

I have the same issue. I were in Hong kong but were pointed to google.no.
BTW, I found enabling he.net slow down my connection quite a lot.  Will investigate the cause.

[mkuron]

I'm on the Frankfurt tunnel server and get redirected to Google Poland...

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curl -I -6 http://www.google.com | grep Location
Location: http://www.google.pl/


IP Geolocation is getting even more absurd now that we have IPv6...



EDIT 2/25: Apparently Frankfurt just moved 1000 kilometers to the north-west and now is located in Denmark:

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curl -6 -I http://www.google.com | grep Location
Location: http://www.google.dk/

EDIT 3/20: And now a couple days ago it moved 1500 kilometers to the south to settle down in Slovenia. Let's see where it goes next.

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curl -6 -I http://www.google.com | grep Location
Location: http://www.google.si/

[Ninho]

I'm on the Frankfurt tunnel server and get redirected to Google Poland...
EDIT 2/25: Apparently Frankfurt just moved 1000 kilometers to the north-west and now is located in Denmark

And me (going through HE Frankfürt too) am being seen as from "România" ;=)

Oh, well... a great opportunity for learning all about  "vampyres" isn't it ?

[broquea]

An update:

Google believed they solved the issue yesterday after making some changes, however it continues with the same behavior. The issue is still open with their IPgeo team, and they will let us know when it has been fixed.

Kudos to Google for looking into this and working to fix it.

[Gapppy]

Try www.google.ru in my situation, and i am from Slovenia. In cyrilic look google sexy but not to me.

[mkuron]

Just thought I'd let you know that at least for me, it seems like it's been fixed for a couple days/weeks now.

EDIT 05/22: Well, guess I'm back to Poland now.