[AusNOG] Speedtest.net and other 'ISP' lists

[Joseph Goldman]

Hrmm - I'm not sure thats 100% true - doing a check of the IP space on 
there correctly shows ISP as what I want to read. I've submitted a 
correction anyway but we will see what happens.

Also another NOG'er emailed me offlist saying that their own customers 
with their own IP space (so not owned by this person), speedtest.net is 
modifying it to say their network and not the customers, so says to me 
they try to do some other sort of lookup for ISP Name, otherwise Maxmind 
would give the IP Owner's information to Ookla.

On 13/08/15 09:07, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
> They simply use Maxmind.  You can submit a correction here: 
> http://www.maxmind.com/en/correction
>
> They will set it to whatever you want, within reason (i.e. APNIC won't 
> put my trading name on my netblocks, but I don't want 'Gardner, 
> Damien' coming up in speedtest for customers, so I contacted maxmind, 
> and now it shows the ISP as Rendrag Networks :)
>
> On 13 August 2015 at 09:02, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au 
> <mailto:joe at apcs.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Noggers,
>
>      Recently speedtest.net <http://speedtest.net> has been showing
>     one of my vISP's names for 'ISP' under a large amount of my IPv4
>     space incorrectly.
>
>      Not only is it incorrect, it is a bit of a leak to other vISP's
>     and customers when they see the incorrect name on this heavily
>     used website, and start querying it.
>
>      The APNIC Whois etc certainly hasn't changed, so I'm wondering
>     about how these sites determine who is the ISP, and if there is a
>     way to update it back to using the APNIC descr field on the blocks
>     whois output?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Joe
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