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Could anyone who's more familiar with routing than me explain how these "virtual locations" work at a technical level? As far as I understand the VPN companies
by codethief 7y ago
Could anyone who's more familiar with routing than me explain how these "virtual locations" work at a technical level? As far as I understand the VPN companies in question don't maintain boxes at those locations and an Azerbaijani IP address for instance literally gets routed to a machine in the UK. How is this possible? I always thought that IP addresses were tied to the location assigned to them by ICANN / regional internet registries.
- kuschku 7y agoYou register as ISP with e.g. RIPE, buy some IP blocks from an ISP in the country you want to pretend to be in, and then announce them via BGP from your actual location. Due to IPv4 shortage, we're actually seeing a lot of chinese and european companies buying IP addresses in AFRINIC space, from african ISPs, and using them in their own countries.