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

[Joseph Goldman]

I've got a response from Ookla already (surprisingly), stating the same 
(fix on maxmind), but from what I can tell, maxmind never changed, and 
even though maxmind is currently correct, a speedtest even this morning 
is showing the wrong ISP Name. I have provided them proof and asked how 
it changed if Maxmind never changed, and will keep checking every week 
for a month see if it corrects.

On 13/08/15 09:25, Cameron Murray wrote:
> I've had the same issue in the past with a few of our Subnets for 
> Location and Name and submitted the change to Maxmind has fixed it 
> each time.
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au 
> <mailto:joe at apcs.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     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 <http://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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>>
>>     -- 
>>
>>     Damien Gardner Jnr
>>     VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
>>     rendrag at rendrag.net <mailto:rendrag at rendrag.net> -
>>     http://www.rendrag.net/_
>>     _--
>>     We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
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>>     We danced among the lightning bolts,
>>      and tore the world asunder
>>
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