RE: Geofeeds are adversarial — was Re: Geofeeds are good

[Tony Patti via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Abdullah DevRel of IPinfo via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote on Sunday, February 15, 2026 12:10 PM:

> Any IP address can be looked up directly via URL: https://ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8 (replace with any IP)

THANK YOU Abdullah for your succinct answer to my concern.

I just tried your https://ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8 method and I note that it provides a LOT more information
(CIDR, Company, City, State, Country, Postal, Timezone, Coordinates, ASN, Abuse Details, and more) 
than your previously mentioned Lite product (which returns only Country, Continent, and ASN)

I compared IPinfo’s answers to MaxMind’s https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo answers, 
for a random recent visitor from 44.198.66.156 to my website https://cryptosystemsjournal.com/ 
and one notable difference is that you specify a larger CIDR block of 44.192.0.0/11 (2,097,152 addresses) 
whereas MaxMind specifies a much smaller CIDR block 44.198.64.0/19 (8,192 addresses).

Tony Patti


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