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Interestingly enough, some of the information maxmind is providing can be found in RIRs databases, such as RIPE for instance: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/spli
by Eikon 7y ago
Interestingly enough, some of the information maxmind is providing can be found in RIRs databases, such as RIPE for instance: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/, ARIN: https://ftp.arin.net/pub/rr/ https://ftp.arin.net/pub/rr/
This is the same information than can usually be accessed using the "whois ip_address" command.
I wonder how this is going to be handled as it's necessary that this information remains public for network operators.
Would ping / mtr / traceroute need to be banned on a per-ip basis too as these tools can be used to triangulate?
The whole thing feels like "please remove my address from maps, it's private data", well yes, ok...
- judge2020 7y agoI'm pretty sure maxmind does more than simply keeping a whois database; they likely aggregate this data from multiple sources, but of course we don't know since it's a trade secret.
- Arnt 7y agoThey do more than aggregate public sources. I looked into it in 2013, and found data in maxmind that was available from no public sources. https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/digital-envoy-maxmind https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/digital-envoy-maxmind jfyi