Re: Reliable GeoIP database

[Alex Buie <abuie () cytracom com>]

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 <sliplever () 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. <dak () 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. <qmail () 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​​