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immibisyesterday at 8:26 PM1 replyview on HN

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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mx7zysuj4xewyesterday at 9:05 PM

I guess maybe we should start some kind of initiative to detect these geolocation providers so we can blacklist them. Maybe it can be some kind of database that is used to null-route all traffic coming from their network /s