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HotGarbageyesterday at 8:19 PM1 replyview on HN

If you're your own ISP you can be wherever you want to be

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/asn-5-worldwide-servers/


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immibisyesterday at 8:26 PM

Sometimes. You can publish whatever geolocation data file you want, but others aren't required to respect that file. It's known that geolocation providers run pings and traceroutes from different locations as well as looking at BGP data.

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