<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">If you're doing it user side,<br>www.google.com/ncr<br>(no country redirect)<br>can be a better starting point than a taskbar.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div>Lloyd Wood<br>lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk<br>http://sat-net.com/L.Wood<br><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> simon thomason <sapage@sapage.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 26 June 2013, 13:58<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] google location services - question.<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4221775853"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div style="">What i really am after is to stop google thinking prefix which live in Singapore are really in India. I pretty certain this is a nice function of google taskbar...</div><div style="">
<br></div><div style="">Cheers,</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Simon T. </div></div><div class="yiv4221775853gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="yiv4221775853gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Scott Howard <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:scott@doc.net.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:scott@doc.net.au">scott@doc.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv4221775853gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Google do geo-location based on both DNS and actual end-user IP, with the latter normally playing the major part.<div>
<br></div><div>Presuming you're in Australia, configure your system to use a US DNS server, and you'll still find yourself being redirected to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com.au/">www.google.com.au</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Scott</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="yiv4221775853gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="yiv4221775853gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Lincoln Dale <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ltd@aristanetworks.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ltd@aristanetworks.com">ltd@aristanetworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv4221775853gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Its likely that your question isn't "where does google think a prefix is located" but rather "where does google think the prefix for {my|upstream} name server that asks them is located.<br>
<br><br>cheers,<br>
<br>lincoln.<br clear="all"><div><span><font color="#888888"><br><span><font color="#888888">Lincoln Dale | Principal Engineer, Arista Networks Inc. | <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ltd@aristanetworks.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ltd@aristanetworks.com">ltd@aristanetworks.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="yiv4221775853gmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:35 PM, simon thomason <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sapage@sapage.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:sapage@sapage.net">sapage@sapage.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br><div>I wanted to see if there was someone on this list whom i could talk to about where google think certain prefixes are geo located. </div></div><div><br></div><div>Sorry to be a little vague on this one but not exactly certain what to ask for.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Simon T. </div></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>