IP2Location-PHP-Module VS fwknop

Hey, I am sorry for the inconvenience faced, could you please send me your registered email via chat? I would have it looked into by my team. You can use the Washington and Seattle locations for Hulu and Amazon Prime US. It would be great if you could send me a screenshot of the device you are using (connected to the server location related to the US region you are trying to access and https://www.ip2location.com/ as an attachment while connected to the VPN (IP address visible).

Sorry to jump off topic a bit but did anyone came across they node being shown as data centre despite running it from home? I do have a static IP address, I wonder if this is linked somehow. The guy from mysterium mentioned they use this database: https://www.ip2location.com/ to determine category of IPs, I’ve emailed them to have a review and rectify but no reply… Data centre nodes really don’t earn much

Therefore, sites with geolocation requirement such as lottery will use geolocation service such as IP2Location to determine geolocation or proxy / VPN to filter all traffics in compliance to local laws.

This is why there're several businesses out there that specialize in that exclusively - maintaining a constantly updated map of IPs, allocations and locations. Among those firms are Maxmind, IP2Location, DP-IP, and more.

You can only get estimated location based on IP address geolocation. You can visit https://www.ip2location.com for example.

You can search IP address and determine the risks using https://www.ip2location.com

BattleMetrics is using IP2Location for geolocation as stated in their site. You can contact them to update if you found any wrong information.

Hello, Content Delivery is available in Argentina, please go to https://www.ip2location.com > Try Demo then scroll down and tell me the usage type.

If you visit https://www.ip2location.com, does the IP2Proxy detect it as VPN? It is possibly false-positive.

sounds fun; i see the arch aur has a few options as well. have you tried https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/ ?

Yes that's the basic idea, i tried to use fwknop first but it didn't do what i wanted it to do so i made my own

Port knocking. Or better yet FWKNOP. I'm disappointed I don't hear people talk about it more. The port isn't even open until you give the secret combination of knocks on a large number of ports. There's much more to it. I recommend listening to Episode 865 ofSecurity Now.

> Is this approach used elsewhere?

Yes, or at least in a similar fashion. An alternative variant of port knocking is SPA (Single Packet Authorization). Often SPA protocols use UDP and contain within the body field an encrypted payload containing all the required data to authenticate and authorize a particular request.

There are multiple different implementations of SPA: OpenSPA [1] (full disclosure: I am the author of OpenSPA), fwknop [2] just to name a few.

SDP (Software Defined Perimeter) often builds upon SPA technologies in order to achieve a form of zero trust access.

[1] - https://github.com/greenstatic/openspa

[2] - https://github.com/mrash/fwknop

I am currently re-writting the OpenSPA protocol (version 2) and I plan on playing around with eBPF as well, so thanks eeriedusk for paving the way :)

As an alternative to port knocking, there is: https://github.com/mrash/fwknop

fwknop is nice and simple

Sure, few links for when you dig in: http://iplists.firehol.org/, https://crowdsec.net/, https://www.zeroflux.org/projects/knock/, https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/

An upgrade to port knocking is Single Packet Authorization [1]. It doesn’t suffer from the observability, and other, problems of port knocking.

[1] https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/

Or keep the port closed like I do with my ssh port and use fwknop to open the port only when needed.