This is factual. I spend a significant amount of effort ensuring geoip is accurate for our customers and the proliferation of vendors makes this very annoying and time consuming when we are onboarding a new block. RFC9632 at least makes this easier - I definitely recommend doing so if you are not.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM Dan Snyder <sliple...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't feel like there is any reliable GeoIP database. The protocol > wasn't designed for this and thus there is a lot of false information > presented about where IP addresses are located. > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM Dmitriy A. <d...@prospectone.io> wrote: > >> We've been dealing with geoip issues for quite a while and this is what >> we came up with, maybe it would be useful for you >> https://github.com/jsdelivr/globalping/blob/master/docs/geoip.md >> >> But we're also in progress of updating the logic to include latency as an >> additional parameter. >> >> On Mon, Feb 3, 2025, 12:20 Scott Q. <qm...@top-consulting.net> wrote: >> >>> What are you guys using as a reliable GeoIP database ? I've tried >>> Maxmind and a few others, also checking against ARIN but there's tons of >>> differences. >>> >>> For example: 1.2.9.0/24 . ARIN says it belongs to China Telecom but >>> others say it's part of Russia: https://ipregistry.co/1.2.9.0 >>> >>> How to handle such cases ? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Scott >>> >>
