[AusNOG] google location services - question.

[Lloyd Wood]

If you're doing it user side,
www.google.com/ncr
(no country redirect)
can be a better starting point than a taskbar.


 
Lloyd Wood
lloyd.wood at yahoo.co.uk
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood



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 From: simon thomason <sapage at sapage.net>
To: Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> 
Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, 26 June 2013, 13:58
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] google location services - question.
 


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.
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>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.
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>On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Lincoln Dale <ltd at aristanetworks.com> wrote:
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>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.
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>>cheers,
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>>lincoln.
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>>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   
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>>On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:35 PM, simon thomason <sapage at sapage.net> wrote:
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>>Hi All,
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>>>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. 
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>>>Sorry to be a little vague on this one but not exactly certain what to ask for.
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>>>Cheers,
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>>>Simon T. 
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