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Bill Lewis
Bill.lewis at kijoma.co.uk
Wed May 28 16:19:26 CEST 2014
ahh so I think I get it now... We have a lot of customers who are not from this country or do not natively speak English (we are entirely UK based) . So if they opt to use say Spanish websites and resources then Maxmind and others make a drastic assumption about the IP address and/or block those customer(s) use ? One of our customers who had this problem for example runs a Hotel and provides WiFi to their guests. As the language and nationality of those guests is entirely unpredictable , Maxmind will completely screw up that hotels IP origin/location. What happens with those providers who give out IP's from a dynamic pool ? Must be even more hell for them. Well done Maxmind for a madly stupid algorithm.. At least we know where to direct the more litigious customers if they blow a fuse over not being able to watch online content. bill On 28/05/2014 11:52, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:35:39AM +0100, admin at intl-alliance.com wrote: >> There is no reliable method that Maxmind can use to >> determine where our end-users are physically located. So I don't buy >> into their story about their fancy algorithm or traffic patterns. > This is the point: they *are* telling the world "we don't know where these > users are". So what are you complaining about? > > Gert Doering > -- NetMaster > > > ---- > If you don't want to receive emails from the RIPE NCC members-discuss > mailing list, please log in to your LIR Portal account and go to the general page: > https://lirportal.ripe.net/general/ > > Click on "Edit my LIR details", under "Subscribed Mailing Lists". From here, you can add or remove addresses. -- Bill Lewis Kijoma Broadband -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/attachments/20140528/9019703b/attachment.html>
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