Interesting. My ISP has been obviously buying new (used) blocks and it is a total nightmare. They bought a block which must have been used in China in some way

Interesting. My ISP has been obviously buying new (used) blocks and it is a total nightmare. They bought a block which must have been used in China in some way a year of so ago. Suddenly every site thinks you are in China, prices start coming up in CNY and various georestictions apply. Luckily you can power cycle the router and get a new IP quickly. It's interesting as I imagine a lot of people (me included until I hit this) did not put updating GeoIP databases high on their priority lists, but it is a total pain when you're on the other side of it.