[ih] How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell (Fusion)

[John Levine]

It appears that Eberhard W Lisse via Internet-history <el at lisse.na> said:
>While not uninteresting, where is the IH relevance?

Their problem was that one of the large IP address geolocation
services had a default value for unknown networks that happened to be
their house, and a lot of people were sure that their lost or stolen
whatever they'd located by IP lookup was there.

I believe the fix was to move the default to the middle of a nearby lake.  I
expected some enterprising kid would set up a kiosk renting rowboats and
snorkels.

R's,
John