alt Hacker NewsWhile exits matter to avoid countries with a nation-wide firewall, the geoip industry is a scourge.
If an ISP wants to help their users avoid geoblocking via https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8805.html more power to them.
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dustywusty • yesterday at 9:04 PM
Can really spot someone who has never had to deal with OFAC with a comment like this. Even if I don't necessarily agree with the concept, or who is actually being blocked, my business is dead in the water if I'm a) sent to prison or b) fined out of existence.
Geographic IP information is one of our best tools to defend against those outcomes, and if anything it should be better.
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boredatoms • yesterday at 10:41 PM
I hope they can use DNS for this instead like they do PTR entries
With CGNAT becoming more widespread, formats like this might need expansion to include location data for ports. Ie. Port 10,000-20,000 are consumers in New york, port numbers 20000-30000 are in Boston, etc.