On Mon, 3 Feb 2025, Scott Q. 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 ?
The trouble with all the IP Geo providers is they're selling data based
on:
1) Assumptions
2) Unmaintained data
3) Stale data
RIR records are notorious for being unmaintained (by the member...I'm not
blaming ARIN/RIPE/etc.). Same goes for rDNS...again, because the owner of
the space doesn't care enough to keep it up to date...because it's not
generally of operational importance to them.
Some networks will publish geofeeds, but getting all the IP Geo providers
to consume those is like herding invisible cats.
And don't get me started on end-users who consume data from an IP Geo
provider and "set and forget" it...ending up with years old data, based on
which they deny network or website access.
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