IP2Location-PHP-Module VS nft-blackhole

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.

Looks not-so reliable. Either fetches a list of blocks from https://github.com/herrbischoff/country-ip-blocks which is a random GitHub repository that collects "straight from the Regional Internet Registries" without any stating any sources nor method for gathering it (which also, I'm assuming, is self-reported data from those registries), or it fetches it from https://www.ipdeny.com/ which currently runs with an expired TLS certificate, which on top of everything, nft-blackhole ignores any issues with certificates anyways, leaving it wide open to MITM attacks (https://github.com/tomasz-c/nft-blackhole/blob/8a656ac0a803a...)

I wouldn't run that if I'd want something to reliably block someone from a specific country.

As sad as it makes me, blocking large parts of the world that you don't expect to connect from via a list of CIDR blocks is an incredibly effective way to secure anything and reduce logspam.

I personally use nft blackhole [1], which I can recommend for its ease of use.

[1] https://github.com/tomasz-c/nft-blackhole