So my XG thinks the 47.133.23.* subnet isn't in United States...wtf...

Hi,

that is why I gave up using country filtering on the XG, it was blocking AU government services and some US government services as being in China.

Ian

Hi, i am kinda confused.

All database i checked, the /24 Sub 47.133.23.0 seems to be placed in Canada, not US?

http://www.geoip.co.uk/

https://geoiptool.com/de/?ip=47.133.23.100

The XG is basically lookup a geoip database.

Hi MBP,

I checked whois ip when the sites failed and it showed them as being in AU and US, but the XG was blocking them as China.

Ian

The were government run ntp sites.

This shows it's in USA

This shows it's in USA

So to sum up, we have 3 database and 2 different results.

Which one are correct?

I mean - You see what i try to say. GeoIP databases are most of the time not correct.

And if XG refer to one database.

Interesting because this whois ip shows it to be in Canada.

Ian

At least they can get the ISP right bahaha. 

But no really, this sucks. Someone should come up with a fix. Maybe check a few sources at the same time and do a vote count before accepting? Although I can only imagine that would slow things down a bit. Maybe go with a provider that has better results? Or maybe let the owner of the XG choose which provider out of a list, to use?

There are couple of scenarios, which you can do.

But you need to know, you have to pay to use most of these databases.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19514749/best-ip-to-country-database

In my point of view, geo ip seems not to be "good" in times of Proxy solutions and the current Boom of cloud providers (AWS, azure etc.), because nobody can say, which "country" they are coming from. If i buy a ec2 instance in US and go through a VPN to this instance, am i a US company? Don´t think so. Just my 2 cents.