hello everybody
Is anybody of you aware, how the most popular services (Google, Zattoo, Facebook, etc) are matching geographic locations to ip-adresses ?
I don't expect somebody from Google coming forward ;-)
My guess(es): - Google: they built their own database, based on data available from commercial providers (maxmind) - Facebook: dito, of course with less engineering effort than Big G. - Zattoo: probably uses Maxmind's dataset with little local modifications
There's not much you can do IMO. If some website thinks you are in country X, and refuses to provide certain services as a result, the only solution is to complain to the website directly and ask them to update their databases. I don't think people can read the RIPE databases in realtime.
Rainer