Geolocation and Geofeed Implementation and issues
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The document discusses IP geolocation and its importance for various applications such as targeted advertising, compliance, and user experience. It also outlines common geolocation issues faced by APNIC members and troubleshooting steps, including updating WHOIS registrations and utilizing geolocation databases. Additionally, it explains how to implement geolocation features like geolocation attributes and geofeeds to provide accurate location information for IP addresses.
Geolocation and Geofeed Implementation and issues
- 1. 1 Geolocation and Geofeed Implementation Subha Shamarukh Internet Resource Analyst APNIC
- 2. 2 What is Geolocation? • IP geolocation is the mapping of an IP address to a geographic location (using databases and other data sources).
- 3. 3 3 Why do we need Geolocation? • Location-Based Services • Targeted Advertising and Marketing • Enhanced User Experience • Compliance with Legal and Regulatory Requirements • Fraud Detection and Prevention • Emergency Services and Public Safety
- 5. 5 5 IP Geolocation complaints are on the rise • APNIC has exhausted fresh 103 prefixes from final /8 block. • New addresses delegated are from recycled pool. • These IPs were in use before, so some geolocation providers may point to the old geolocation details.
- 6. 6 6 Queries from BD APNIC members My customers cannot access Bkash, Rocket with these IPs. Please help. We are getting geolocation issue in our IP. It shows Italy but we serve in Bangladesh. So how can I solve the issue? Currently, we are getting our IP geolocation Australia. Please change our IP geolocation from Australia to Bangladesh. Services hosted in amazon web services detects the IP as Hong Kong Country IP. So a lot of our users are not being able to use our country on restricted sites like hoichoi.tv chorki.com etc. We are facing geolocation related issue. A lot of game and services sees us as Hong Kong. Our IP address used to be owned by a Hong Kong based hosting company. Such as PUBG mobile detects the country of our IP as Hong Kong.
- 7. 7 Services Impacted PUBG MOBILE - PUBG MOBILE added a new photo. Fintech services (e.g. Bkash, Rocket) and Banking websites Gaming websites (e.g. PubG, CSGO) Social media and Content Providers Government websites
- 8. 8 8 Troubleshooting • Check APNIC Whois registration is up to date. • Search on APNIC Whois Database: https://apnic.net/whois
- 9. 9 Troubleshooting • Check IP information in third party GEOIP databases (such as, MaxMind, Google) and submit a correction request if the location is incorrect. More info: https://www.apnic.net/geolocation
- 10. 10 10 Troubleshooting • If a geolocation provider has incorrect location details of your IP address range, contact them and request they update the location of the range. • Some content delivery networks (CDN) and content providers maintain their own IP geolocation database which may or may not use RIR data. You may want to contact them directly to report any geolocation issues. • Contact web admins of blocked websites directly and inquire about the issue.
- 11. 11 11 APNIC Data • For records maintained by APNIC, the economy where the organization is registered is recorded (with ISO-3166 country codes, e.g BD, AU) • This information appears in: – Public stats file – Portable inetnum and inet6num
- 12. 12 12 Public Stats file https://ftp.apnic.net/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-latest
- 15. 15 15 Member data Members can register customer assignments to indicate the location where their network is deployed – “country” attribute in customer assignments can be used to indicate the economy where those IP addresses are used – “geoloc” attribute can be used to associate a latitude/longitude coordinate pair with a particular address block – “geofeed” attribute can be used by entering a URL containing location information in csv format
- 16. 16 16 Geoloc • A latitude/longitude coordinate indicating where users of this network are located. Provides a hint to content and geolocation service providers. A blank space should be used as a separator between the two coordinates. • Example inetnum: 192.0.2.0/24 # example geoloc: -27.472834 153.014264 • Limited success with geoloc • Likely to be deprecated
- 17. 17 17 Geofeed • RFC 8805 specifies a format for self-publishing geolocation information for IP prefixes. • Host CSV geofeed file over https and put the URL in the geofeed attribute. • Example: inetnum: 192.0.2.0/24 # example geofeed: https://example.com/geofeed.csv
- 18. 18 How to add Geofeed Step 1: CSV file with location information and URL • Prepare a CSV file with location information. You can host the CSV geofeed file on your domain. • Alternatively, use a free service like GitHub or Packetvis (https://packetvis.com/geofeed/ ) to generate the CSV file and url. Example: remarks: https://geofeeds.packetvis.com/example.csv
- 19. 19 19 How to add Geofeed Step 2: Add geofeed attribute Go to: • MyAPNIC > Resource Manager > Whois Updates • Select the “Update” tab • Search IP prefix • Select 'geofeed' from the drop-down list at the bottom of the page > Add field > Enter the url • Update
- 20. 20 20 How to verify Geofeed • After adding the Geofeed attribute, you can verify the information on Geolocatemuch: https://geolocatemuch.com/? resource • Note: Allow time for the information to propagate before checking.
- 21. 21 We encourage you to take the steps mentioned in this presentation to address geolocation issues. Any feedback for improvement is welcome! THANK YOU