Re: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data?

["William F. Maton Sotomayor" <wmaton () ryouko imsb nrc ca>]

On Fri, 1 May 2009, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se> wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 May 2009, Frank Bulk wrote:
> >
> > > What we need is a "master update" form where Akamai, Google, Maxmind,
> > > hostip.info, Geobytes, ip2location, ipgeo, etc can be notified about
> > > changes.
> >
> > Perhaps we as the ISP community need to realise that we need to somehow
> > publish this data (town or something alike) via some kind of standardized
> > API?
>
> hey lookie! dns TXT records!! :)

LOC records too. :-)

 dig @prisoner.iana.org hostname.as112.net any

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hostname.as112.net.            IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
hostname.as112.net.     604800  IN      SOA     as112.gigafed.net. 
dns.ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca. 1 604800 60 604800 604800
hostname.as112.net.     604800  IN      LOC     45 25 0.000 N 75 42 0.000 
W 80.00m 1m 10000m 10m

Helpful for folks like CAIDA too.

wfms