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Wrong geolocation

Started by Amilto, March 22, 2021, 01:48:52 PM

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Amilto

Hello !

Got this configuration working at home :

Name                                                                   Routed /64
tunnel624499.tunnel.tserv10.par1.ipv6.he.net   2001:470:1f13:1e6::/64

Everything is fine, from ping to web service at home in IPv6. BUT my geolocation in IPv6 is now USA while it should be France. Any way to fix this ?

Best regards and Thanks for All the Fish !
William

tjeske

I don't think that's possible. HE already put the correct details with France as location. Check yourself:
https://dnschecker.org/ipv6-whois-lookup.php

Problem is that there are widely used 3rd party databases with wrong location information for your IP. Check the biggest:
https://www.iplocation.net/ip-lookup

As you can see, "IP2Location", "ipinfo.io", and "ipgeolocation.io" (still) report a wrong/old location. They _might_ pick it up automatically, but the best is probably to write to them and tell them the correct location of your prefix. That's how it worked for me.

Amilto

Thanks for your answer.

By the way, 2001:470:1f13:1e6::/64 is located in USA according to https://dnschecker.org/ipv6-whois-lookup.php . Do they get the location from HE ? If so, then HE please fix this.

Best regards

broquea

Nothing for us to fix, we publish location data in our rwhois. If a 3rd party GeoIP service doesn't use what we publish, that is on them. We're not responsible for other ppl's products, like GeoIP databases.

tjeske

Hey, you're welcome.

Quote from: Amilto on March 23, 2021, 12:58:13 PM
By the way, 2001:470:1f13:1e6::/64 is located in USA according to https://dnschecker.org/ipv6-whois-lookup.php .

I think you're looking at the wrong section. What you see first is just the location for the whole ASN. The rwhois for your record is further down:

contact:ID;I:POC-TB-DTND
contact:Auth-Area:contacts
contact:Class-Name:contact
contact:Name:Private Customer - Hurricane Electric
contact:Street-Address:Private Residence
contact:City:Salouel
contact:Province:Somme
contact:Postal-Code:80480
contact:Country-Code:FR
contact:Phone:+1-510-580-4100
contact:E-mail:hostmaster@he.net
contact:Created:20201029063538000
contact:Updated:20201029063538000