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by elij 1483 days ago
not true -- your prefix location is a BGP tag which is appended based on where you're physically connected (which T1 carriers will do). Obviously you can get around it with an overlay network but you'll need some trivial PoP in India.
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Nah this is all just fake whois entries announced elsewhere. Has no connection to IN outside of that.
interesting that they're having so much success with false RIPE/ARIN entries. Proper geolocation (as in with visiblity of most T1s) would trivially identify the origin of traffic.
There is less success than you would expect, but it's mostly just there to tick a box, not really used much.