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Geolocation IP help


From: Sam Kretchmer <sam () coeosolutions com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 19:56:15 +0000

To anyone who might be able to help me reach someone clued at the State of Illinois website.

We (Coeo Solutions) had to acquire an IP block, 213.159.132.0/22, from RIPE many years ago. This was due to 
availability issues at the time for acquiring new IP’s. This block was transferred to ARIN and assigned to Coeo. Before 
this transfer this IP block was sourced out of Dublin IRE. Now, the majority of Geo-location systems show these as 
being in the USA correctly, but, apparently whatever the Illinois State uses for their Geo-location verification is 
still showing these IP’s as being located in Dublin, and because that is outside the USA, they are blocking access to 
my customers using these IP’s. I have spent months sending emails and filling change requests with every Geo-location 
database service I can get to respond to me, but apparently none of them are what the St of Illinois uses for their 
Geo-location filtering.

Any assistance I can find in getting this issue resolved so all my users can have full access to the State of Illinois 
websites would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks


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