[outages] Akamai Geolocation Concerns

[Dan White]

Thanks Jared. We operate our own DNS resolvers, which are seeing the same
behavior. I wanted to test against a couple of public servers to,
presumably, rule out a geolocation database problem.

Josh,

All looks good with regards to the data provided at
http://thebrotherswisp.com/index.php/geo-and-vpn with the exception of
https://www.ipligence.com/geolocation which seems to be junk serving junk
data.

So far, Akamai is the only provider we are seeing issues with.

Thanks for the feedback.

On 01/17/20 14:24 -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
>I recommend against using 1.1.1.1 as that may direct you to far away locations.
>I can help you off-list further.
>
>- Jared
>
>> On Jan 17, 2020, at 2:20 PM, Josh Luthman via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
>>
>> The IPs you're coming from, look what they say at the various geolocation services here:
>>
>> http://thebrotherswisp.com/index.php/geo-and-vpn/
>>
>> Also, have you tried a local DNS server and not Google/Cloudflare Anycast ones?
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 2:13 PM Dan White via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
>> We are seeing some geolocation oddities with a couple of websites hosted at, or resolved by, Akamai.
>>
>> Two hostnames I'm looking at include:
>>
>> business.officedepot.com
>> www.teacherspayteachers.com
>>
>> 'A' records for both have a TTL of 20 seconds, and randomly resolve to IPs in the US, and Europe (we are in the US/Oklahoma).
>>
>> For example, business.officedepot.com is resolving to both 96.17.32.230 and
>> 88.221.37.87 (at different times). I've verified the same inconsistent
>> behavior against 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1.
>>
>> This is causing issues for an educational customer of ours. Is anyone aware
>> of issues within Akamai that may be causing them to source content from
>> Europe?

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