Re: Geofeeds are good — was Re: Publishing BGP communties for your network (Re: What's up with BGP communities?)

[Ben Cartwright-Cox via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Depends on what your (from the geoip providers point of view) customers 
goals are really.

A very much non zero amount of geofeeds from providers opportunistically 
putting their prefixes in countries they are not, mostly for VPN 
placement (it sure is a lot nicer to VPN in the USA that everybody 
thinks is in South Africa, than actually running a VPN in South Africa), 
but there is also a number of  networks that are using geo feeds as a 
opportunistic way to get their prefix is into countries where copyright 
holders don't necessarily have a with sending notices to.

If the goal of you using a geoip database is to sniff out customers who 
are accessing content the you are contractually obligated not to serve 
in their region, well, you would actually prefer your geoip provider do 
it's homework rather than taking geofeeds at face value.

On 1/27/26 17:10, Mike via NANOG wrote:
> Are you saying you know more about my prefixes than me?

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