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Re: Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs

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Post by withinboredom »

reincoder wrote: post #80
withinboredom wrote: post #75

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yeah, it's very wrong. Showing "vpn: true" (actually a regular residential connection), wrong city, region, postcode, etc. Just like every other service out there. I don't see any way to report it though.

That is really surprising. For geolocation correction, we have a self reporting system: ipinfo.io/corrections I forgot to add the link in my original comment. But as you mentioned we are showing VPN as true, that indicates a very interesting situation. Can you ping our support, please? https://ipinfo.io/support If you can also mention that, you came from HN, that will be fantastic. We will open an engineering ticket…

Submitted a support request. My email address is also in my profile, feel free to reach out directly. I can also open a wireguard configuration for you guys if you want to run some tests. I do see that my ipv6 prefix results in a correct location.

Re: Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs

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Post by reincoder »

jftuga wrote: post #76
reincoder wrote: post #67

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I work for IPinfo. >the ASN is a string of asn and name, no org or country Yeah detailed ASN information on the API level is available on paid tiers. However, we have a free IP to ASN Country database that is updated daily and provides full accuracy. That database provides ASN, AS organization, and AS domain information. I think the reason we don't have more ASN details on the API even though we provide more informat…

> Our API allows for tokenless API access for up to 1,000 request/day. Thank you for this! Much appreciated! I am sure there are tons of similar programs, but here is one I wrote: https://github.com/jftuga/ipinfo I added on a distance column. Just yesterday, I added this: brew install jftuga/tap/ipinfo

The pleasure is all ours. Your tool is really awesome. I have bookmarked it. It addresses a very practical questions users have about distance calculation. Now I have the right tool to recommend to users.

Would it be possible to allow access token usage in the tool, please?

Re: Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs

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Post by reincoder »

withinboredom wrote: post #91
reincoder wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is really surprising. For geolocation correction, we have a self reporting system: ipinfo.io/corrections I forgot to add the link in my original comment. But as you mentioned we are showing VPN as true, that indicates a very interesting situation. Can you ping our support, please? https://ipinfo.io/support If you can also mention that, you came from HN, that will be fantastic. We will open an engineering ticket…

Submitted a support request. My email address is also in my profile, feel free to reach out directly. I can also open a wireguard configuration for you guys if you want to run some tests. I do see that my ipv6 prefix results in a correct location.

Thank you very much. I really appreciate you opening a ticket. We will look into it and keep you updated.

Re: Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs

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Post by withinboredom »

mekster wrote: post #89
bswinnerton wrote: post #83

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I'd also suggest filing a correction with MaxMind, which is where most modern geolocation data is derived: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-location-correction .

Isn't there an alternative to MaxMind? Seems like a problem if they're the only useful source and they can change their license/fee to anything they want at any time.

In most cases, their database is entirely free as in free beer. You can't modify and contribute back to it, though (for somewhat obvious reasons). You can download a free local copy and purchase a more advanced version with more information. But if you need a simple lookup, the database is free, excellent, and is updated twice a week.

https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite2-free-geolocation-data

Re: Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs

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Post by avipars »

rebelde wrote: post #30

Feature request for any service like this: Let "me" know if it is a school, so I know that I am probably dealing with minors, a public environment and a firewall. Of course, you need to do the work (rDNS to start) to identify the schools. I love the speed of the responses!

Seems like schools should opt-in by submitting their IP address/range

Re: Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs

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Post by inemesitaffia »

rebelde wrote: post #30

Feature request for any service like this: Let "me" know if it is a school, so I know that I am probably dealing with minors, a public environment and a firewall. Of course, you need to do the work (rDNS to start) to identify the schools. I love the speed of the responses!

University's and post secondary educational institutions can have k12 schools attached especially if they study education or are isolated

Re: Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs

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Post by jftuga »

reincoder wrote: post #92
jftuga wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Our API allows for tokenless API access for up to 1,000 request/day. Thank you for this! Much appreciated! I am sure there are tons of similar programs, but here is one I wrote: https://github.com/jftuga/ipinfo I added on a distance column. Just yesterday, I added this: brew install jftuga/tap/ipinfo

The pleasure is all ours. Your tool is really awesome. I have bookmarked it. It addresses a very practical questions users have about distance calculation. Now I have the right tool to recommend to users. Would it be possible to allow access token usage in the tool, please?

Yes. I would accept a PR for this.

Re: Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs

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Post by byyll »

bswinnerton wrote: post #34
byyll wrote: post #33

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Countries.

The country code is the last portion of the networks CSV: $ curl -sL ip.guide/bulk/networks.csv | head -n 2 prefix,asn,organization,country 1.0.0.0/24,13335,"Cloudflare, Inc.",US

I meant something like de.csv to get a list of IP ranges in Germany.

Re: Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs

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Post by mrngm »

toast0 wrote: post #87
Kirce wrote: post #12

Awesome, bookmarked! Would it be possible to list all announced IP ranges for an AS?

In addition to other tools, there's also https://bgp.he.net which has a page for announced prefixes. Sometimes it's useful to use multiple tools, as not everyone will see all announcements or process them the same.

At the moment, https://bgp.tools/ is my favourite goto for ASN/BGP-related information. They operate route collectors on quite a few internet exchanges, collecting BGP routing information from peers connected on those IXes, as well as route servers. They offer near-realtime insight in what prefixes are actually announced/visible, as well as prefixes that have been allocated, but are not announced.

There's even more under the hood, worth checking it out.

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