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Country blocking accuracy

whitetr6
Hi, I've been experimenting with Country Blocking. I know there are a lot of posts about enhancements to this capability, so I don't need to add to that. I'm concerned about accuracy though. I have an example that fits into United States, which is unchecked, but the traffic is still blocked. Any idea why that would be?

For now I have turned it back off because several sites my users were going to were being blocked. Very possible not all of them are US though. I only know for sure about this one. The site address is uschamberpartners.com, which resolves to 67.59.185.132, or an IP Number of 1127987588 which is clearly US from what I can tell.

Thanks


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    The country blocking feature is something we will look to enhance later in UTM 9.1. The service itself is provided by GeoIP, of which we use their very best accuracy, but the act of resolving an IP to a physical location is sometimes prone to errors despite their best efforts. 

    As such, due to the popularity of the feature since we introduced it, we'll look to add more controls for it in order to allow you to create exceptions and granular rules. We're on it!
  • 0 in reply to AngeloC
    Awesome, thanks for the quick reply Angelo. Looking forward to it.
  • 0 in reply to whitetr6
    By the way, it wasn't GeoIP I was basing my check on, so the fact that's what you're using  does explain why it's blocked. GeoIP shows that address as Israel.

    Thanks again
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