[outages] Akamai Geolocation Concerns

[Jared Mauch]

	If you contact me off-list I can help :-)

	We don't want you going to europe when you're in the US for
example, but there may be reasons/cases that happens as well.

	- Jared

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 01:35:00PM -0600, Dan White wrote:
> 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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> Dan White
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