Something that I thought about last night... you don't have the reverse DNS set to something obviously non-US, right? I think they'd probably be a little suspicious of a New Jersey IP address that reverses to huluproxy.superpants.co.uk or something like that

If I were them, I'd check that. But I'm not, so you never know.

I have the same problem (though I've only had a linode for 2 days now).
My reverse DNS is configured to resolve to the IP itself (so no wrong TLD).
I found out that when I enter my IP at geoiptool.com (which has worked fine for me so far), it doesn't show any info at all. However, when I enter it at maxmind.com, I get the correct data (except for the city, but at least it's assigned to the US).

I guess there is no way modifying that data though because they accumulate it from multiple sources

I didn't know about flash cookies; that is pretty interesting. I found out how to delete them, just go here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/docum ... ger07.html


That being said, it didn't fix the problem - thanks everyone for the help though!

Not exactly what was meant. The Flash plugin can be made to send RTMP packets directly to the internet, without going through the system or browser specific proxy.

With this little trick, services like Hulu actualy get your real IP even if you're using a http proxy like Squid.

They don't. My fremont IP resolves to a chinese domain, and it works just fine.