On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 09:48:02PM +0000, Andrew Pavlin wrote: ! Think about it. Who _has_ to know your physical/geographical address and its associated Internet address block to provide you with Internet service? Your ISP!
Question: is an ISP legally oblidged to divulge their customer's locations to Maxmind? In California, that is? ! And your usage profile is valuable (and profitable) marketing data. That's a bit different here. I rent my machines from a canadian company, which in turn rents them from some french and german companies, the machines themselve being located e.g. in Africa. Then I rent my domains from another US company. Finally I get IPv4 alongside with the machines, and IPv6 from a different shop in California (that latter being what I'm talking about here). Now all this is not for some crazy conspiracy stuff; it is just the cheapest way to get to all of it. So I have lots of weird networking, offsite backup and all the perks, and pay less than 17 € a month for it all. I don't do business so I don't need ample bandwidth, and I'm longterm unemployed and can't get a job, so I cannot pay more. ! Per chance, are you also using the ISP's DNS resolver (so they can monitor all your DNS lookups)? No, I actually can run DNS by myself. And we're not talking about just resolver, but authoritative DNS server for my public domains, plus split-horizon intranet, plus the resolver, plus root-slave. Now I thought maybe some of You might know where that location data is actually stored - because it doesn't look like it is in the "whois" database - the "whois" doesn't seem to have /64 subnet granularity, but the provided data has: 2001:470:1f23:1a:: -> Johannesburg, ZA 2001:470:1f23:1b:: -> Frankfurt/Main, DE 2001:470:1f23:1c:: -> Johannesburg, ZA And it has something to do with the DNS: the "2001:470:1f23:1b::" has a distinct SOA. ! As for "not wanting to receive advertising spam all day...", the ! Advertising Collective _will_ assimilate you and reprogram you to realize your sole reason for existence is to: ! 1. consume advertising, and ! 2. purchase advertised products and services. Exactly! That's the spirit! Love You, keep the good work going! :))) cheerio, PMc -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
