reincoder

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by reincoder 9d ago
I was looking into the IPv6 adoption of US government websites ( https://community.ipinfo.io/t/the-state-of-ipv6-across-us-go... ) when we discovered that Cloudflare had essentially dethroned Akamai for government conten
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by reincoder 1mo ago
You can block entire ASNs. If you are frustrated with bots, blocking Tencent's entire IP address space would have very few downsides. If you have fail2ban or NGINX logs, you can use our CLI to summarize those IPs and identify the ASNs
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by reincoder 1mo ago
I work for IPinfo. We offer IPinfo Lite for free. With a little bit of time in identifying the ASNs, you can implement a decent way to block a good number of bots fairly easily using the free data alone.
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by reincoder 3mo ago
The project directly references us, so it is only fair we provide more context. The idea of a pitch means that there is some sort of price attached to it, which IPinfo Lite does not have. In fact, it is designed as commercially permissive a
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by reincoder 3mo ago
We do not comment to advertise. We participate in IP geolocation discussions because there is a lot of misinformation in this space, and we feel a responsibility to provide accurate information publicly. In this case, the recommendation was
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by reincoder 3mo ago
I work at IPinfo. We offer unlimited free requests through the IPinfo Lite API. By unlimited, I mean millions of requests per day. The free API provides country and ASN data. As far as I know, GeoLite2 does not have city-level data for a la
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by reincoder 3mo ago
I work for IPinfo. We do not provide reputation scoring, by the way. Reputation is such a subjective matter. It would be easy for us to make a very quick sales if we start offering reputation scoring, but we, as a company, would rather supp
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by reincoder 4mo ago
Yes, we do use user agents to separate requests to our websites and API service. However, we request users to switch to api.ipinfo.io (dedicated API infrastructure) and use ipinfo.io/json for an explicit request for the API endpoint. T
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by reincoder 4mo ago
You have to ask them. I tried but did not get a clear answer. We operate nearly 1,400 servers across almost 160 countries ourselves. From our perspective, it is VERY hard to maintain and expand a network infrastructure of this scale. When y
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by reincoder 4mo ago
Windsribe and iVPN. https://ipinfo.io/vpnreport
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by reincoder 4mo ago
I work for IPinfo. Even though we are in the VPN detection business, I will give Mullvad the benefit of the doubt, to be honest. They were one of the three VPN providers we found that did not attempt to submit inaccurate geolocation informa
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by reincoder 5mo ago
I used the same methodology to observe AI crawlers. This is not an investigative blog but is rather designed to address our (IPinfo) customers who are asking us to identify IP addresses as "AI Agents" or, more accurately, "AI
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by reincoder 5mo ago
--- Edit to my parent company --- I am scaling back this enthusiasm a bit. We need to work with mature organizations instead of individuals. We need SSH through a public IP address and use Ubuntu as an operating system. Since we
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by reincoder 5mo ago
We actually have app-based data collection capabilities and initiatives. Our goal, or more appropriately, vision, is to map the internet in real time. This involves SSH access to devices to run different forms of measurements at a very high
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by reincoder 5mo ago
I work for IPinfo and we operate a distributed network consisting of around 1,400 servers. I think we have reached a point where it is extremely hard for us purchase VPSes from interesting ASNs. To support lots of ISPs, universities, and di
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by reincoder 6mo ago
> I couldn't get /lite/ to work. Email me: abdullah@ipinfo.io I think there is an issue with setting up our API.
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by reincoder 6mo ago
> Do you happen to know if anyone is compiling all of this data about VPNs into one place? It would be super interesting to know which VPNs are providing genuine services vs masquerading the locations. Maybe even an SEO for you. We made
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by reincoder 6mo ago
> I am assuming the inferred data, but that also feels counter-intuitive (since the data does not align with what ASN/ISP are reporting). That is a very good question. Now, geofeed does not have a verification system. Active measure
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by reincoder 6mo ago
I work for IPinfo. We provide a free country and ASN database on a free tier with an unlimited amount of requests. You can download the entire database or use the API services. For country and ASN, it is free. However, we do not offer city
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by reincoder 6mo ago
I work for IPinfo. The accuracy you see is inferred data actually. Our IP address location should not perfectly pinpoint anyone, unless that IP address is a data center of some sort. The highest accuracy for a non-data center IP address is
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by reincoder 6mo ago
I work for IPinfo. Has our data been inconsistent for you? We actually invest heavily and continuously in data accuracy. I think for hosting IP addresses we are nearing the highest level of accuracy possible, especially with data center add
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by reincoder 7mo ago
I work for IPinfo. We track close to a hundred resproxy providers. So, if OP's router is compromised, the device IPs will likely be flagged. From what I know, whenever a router is backdoored or a resproxy SDK gains access to a device t
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by reincoder 7mo ago
This is called a geofeed. Companies that own or operate IP addresses can customarily share the location of those IP addresses. This is less of "IP-based Geolocation" rather "Geolocation of IP addresses.
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by reincoder 8mo ago
From our data side, we focus on network diversity and conduct continuous measurements. Due to the nature of our measurements and our knowledge of the precise locations of all 1330 servers, we understand how network packets travel across the
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by reincoder 8mo ago
Thank you, Dimitry. Everyone at IPinfo really appreciates the shoutout! --- Our research scientist, Calvin, will be giving a talk at NANOG96 on Monday that delves into active measurement-based IP geolocation. https://nanog.org&#x
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by reincoder 8mo ago
I work for IPinfo. We are launching a collaborative project with IXPs and major internet organizations to share raw measurement for routing and peering data for this purpose. Latency variability is a huge issue. We run both traceroute and p
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by reincoder 9mo ago
That is a great point! For us, it is 100% of end users not limited to our customers. If you are impacted by our data in any way, it is on us. We are accountable for that. https://community.ipinfo.io/t/wrong-geolocation-
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by reincoder 9mo ago
I am not sure whether this kind of IP spoofing will impact our accuracy because we will likely identify the noise and behavioral anomaly and discard the location hint derived from traceroute. We have tons of historical traceroute data patte
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by reincoder 9mo ago
We are actively trying to improve our system and build it as figuratively 'antifragile'. We can not afford to get comfortable and we need to constantly find faults in it. If you know anything, you can contact our founder or me dir
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by reincoder 9mo ago
If it is an anycast IP address, we have hints of all locations. However, because we have to produce a standard IP geolocation product, we can only select one address. So, we choose the address we find from a reliable geofeed and designate t

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