[AusNOG] google location services - question.

[simon thomason]

Hi,

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...

Cheers,

Simon T.


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:

> Google do geo-location based on both DNS and actual end-user IP, with the
> latter normally playing the major part.
>
> Presuming you're in Australia, configure your system to use a US DNS
> server, and you'll still find yourself being redirected to
> www.google.com.au.
>
>   Scott
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Lincoln Dale <ltd at aristanetworks.com>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> lincoln.
>>
>> Lincoln Dale | Principal Engineer, Arista Networks Inc. |
>> ltd at aristanetworks.com
>> au did: +61 3 9999 7442 | m: +61 417 457 965 | us did: +1 408 547 5782
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:35 PM, simon thomason <sapage at sapage.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Sorry to be a little vague on this one but not exactly certain what to
>>> ask for.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Simon T.
>>>
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