[PLUG-TALK] Static IP address geolocation
Tomas Kuchta
tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Thu Apr 1 22:39:58 UTC 2021
This is expected behavior.
Publish your address on your web site and in whois DB and be done with it.
You do not owe the IP anyway, you just rent it.
Kind of opposite problem most people would have - not enough privacy.
Just my 2c, Tomas
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 17:37 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> My static IP address (50.126.108.78) terminates here in Troutdale, OR and
> was issued by ZiplyFiber (nee Verizon -> Frontier). The geolocation
> associate with that IP address shows up on websites and whatismyip.com as
> either Tigard, OR or Hillsboro, OR.
>
> I just spent over an hour on the phone with people at ZiplyFiber. The
> business technical support person told me they don't issue static IP
> addresses so they cannot correct the geolocation and retuned me back to
> businss support ... who told me they don't do anything with IP addresses or
> their geolocation so I need to speak with busines tech support. After a
> half-hour on hold I hung up. Then I got a call back that told me no one
> there knows how/who associates geolocations to IP addresses. They don't
> have
> any relationship to the account billing locations. So much for customer
> support.
>
> There must be someone in that huge telco who knows how to access their IP
> address database and can reassign my static IP address to its actual
> geolocation. If you have suggestions on how I continue to resolve this
> mis-location please tell me about them.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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