Re: Akamai Geolocation Secret Sauce?

[Nicholas Harland <nharland () gmail com>]

The people who could answer that question are quite unlikely to do so on a
public mailing list, but I'm sure that having a huge number of servers
deployed to a huge number of known physical locations on networks across
the globe plays a big part in the ingredients.

If you think Akamai or any other network is geolocating incorrectly,
contact their support. Or if you just want to know how the geo sauce is
made, many companies file the best parts of their recipes online:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&hl=en&q=akamai+geolocation

Nick Harland

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson () esri com> wrote:

> Anyone familiar with how Akamai does its geolocation?  Presumably they
> do more than Maxmind/WHOIS, but I suppose one or both of those could
> factor in?
>
> For those of you with ARIN IP space, do you typically SWIP things to
> yourself to help clarify the locations where the IP space physically
> resides to feed into Geolocation databases?
>
> Thanks,
> Ray