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by reincoder 10mo ago
We are actively trying to improve our system and build it as figuratively 'antifragile'. We can not afford to get comfortable and we need to constantly find faults in it. If you know anything, you can contact our founder or me dir
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by reincoder 10mo ago
If it is an anycast IP address, we have hints of all locations. However, because we have to produce a standard IP geolocation product, we can only select one address. So, we choose the address we find from a reliable geofeed and designate t
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by reincoder 10mo ago
I can tell you how we approach enterprise partnerships: absolute accountability. If something is wrong with the data, it is not our customers' fault for trusting us, it is our fault. End users talk to us directly. And because the data
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by reincoder 10mo ago
That is an excellent point! That is why we have the IP to country level data available for free. As you have recognized the fact that country level data is good for security, we are willing to take a massive hit on potential revenue to allo
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by reincoder 10mo ago
So, there is a dashboard internally for that. When we do ProbeNet PoP assessment, we have a high-level overview of the frequent and favored connections. We have a ton of servers in Africa, and there is a strong routing bias towards France,
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by reincoder 10mo ago
We run traceroutes and latency measurements from many different locations, so we are looking at aggregate behavior rather than any single path. When you combine data from hundreds of ProbeNet PoPs over time, asymmetric routing mostly shows
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by reincoder 10mo ago
We are actually a sponsor of RIPE Atlas and have a bunch of credits. But I am not sure if we use them extensively. I think, as we own and operate the ProbeNet, much of the data collection efforts can be done through that in a scalable manne
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by reincoder 10mo ago
They have a correction form but I am not sure if it is super robust: https://support.google.com/websearch/workflow/9308722?hl=en I talked to someone who bought a /24 from South America to be used in the Unit
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by reincoder 10mo ago
> how you can spoof IPInfo's location probes... Interesting. I would love to know how this is possible. Like with Geofeed or something else?
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by reincoder 10mo ago
Some of our (IPinfo) services are hosted on GCP, and because our service is widely used (with 2 trillion requests processed in 2024) people sometimes say they cannot access our service. It is usually due to how Google's device-based IP
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by reincoder 10mo ago
That is really interesting. I wonder if we have any internal data on this. I will check. We are trying to work with ISPs everywhere, so if port level geolocation of the IP address is common, we surely need to account for that. I will flag t
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by reincoder 10mo ago
We operate servers for the purpose of measuring the internet using a wide variety of methods. We have more than 1,200 of these servers distributed across 530 cities, running not only ping but traceroute and many other types of active measur
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by reincoder 10mo ago
We (I work for IPinfo) talk about latency because it is a thread that you can start from when exploring our full depth of data. We are the internet data company and our ProbeNet only represents a fraction of our investment. Through our Prob
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by reincoder 10mo ago
I work for IPinfo. We also run traceroutes. Actually, we run a ton of active measurements from our ProbeNet. The amount of location data we process is staggering. https://ipinfo.io/probenet Latency is only one dimension of
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by reincoder 10mo ago
We (IPinfo) attended the IETF 3-day workshop on IP geolocation. Our presentation was about geofeed that can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/l8PR7VCmA3Q?si=dG-00UqljTopBquF&t=372 . It was a great session and we received
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by reincoder 10mo ago
That was actually a great article. For us, that is like a crowdsourced bug hunting program. We actually got duped ourselves, and we appreciate the author. We added additional features for location hint modeling and selection for IPv6 networ
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by reincoder 10mo ago
I can not access https://www.cromite.org/ It redirects to a dead link hosted on aruba.it. I can investigate it.
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by reincoder 10mo ago
Our headcount is approximately 70 right now. Most of engineering consists of data engineers, researchers, and data scientists because data is our product. Then we have infrastructure engineering, software engineering, integration engineerin
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by reincoder 10mo ago
We are always happy to work with large technology enterprises and streaming platforms, not necessarily to sell, but to share insights, data, and practical advice. We observe the entire internet through active measurements, and we are open t
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by reincoder 10mo ago
I work for IPinfo. We provide IP geolocation and VPN detection services. We identify which IP addresses are associated with a VPN and the actual location of the IP address. We have not collaborated with any VPN companies for the report and
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by reincoder 10mo ago
I work for IPinfo. No, the article does not make this conclusion at all! It was carefully written to highlight the nature of virtual locations of VPN exit nodes and does not make such conclusions. The article is written by our founder, who
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by reincoder 10mo ago
I work for IPinfo, and I appreciate your comment. Our product philosophy is centered on accuracy and reliability. We intentionally diverge from the broader IP geolocation industry's trust-based model. Instead of relying primarily on &q
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by reincoder 10mo ago
I work for IPinfo. I am not sure what routing tricks Proton uses. I have looked into the smart routing and stealth protocol related documentation. I am not sure if Proton does anything unique when it comes to IP location. I am not saying th
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by reincoder 10mo ago
I work for IPinfo. I have raised a ticket internally, but I think we focused on consumer VPNs for this test. For our ProbeNet, we are attempting to reach 150 countries (by ISO 3166's definition). We are at around 530 cities. Server man
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Should You Trust Your VPN Location?(ipinfo.io)
12 points by reincoder 10mo ago|0 comments
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by reincoder 10mo ago
That is surprising. I am not sure what is going on. This type of accuracy can only work if you are operating like a literal data center. Even in that case, I think meter level accuracy will involve hosting one of our ProbeNet PoPs. For exam
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by reincoder 11mo ago
I work for IPinfo. If you're on a residential connection, the geolocation of that IP address is likely to be accurate up to the ZIP code area. We have generalized hints of location information from over 70 different sources. Then we ag
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by reincoder 11mo ago
I work for IPinfo. I'm not sure how ChatGPT incorporates IP geolocation data in their services, but I have seen open-source LLM-based conversational AI use our service before. The API provides context around location and time mostly. H
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by reincoder 11mo ago
I work for IPinfo. Creating adverserial geofeeds is not illegal — it's just frowned upon at best. We treat geofeeds as self-reported location data, and we do not assume they are trustworthy. This is exactly why, unlike much of the indu
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by reincoder 11mo ago
Thank you for mentioning us. I work for IPinfo. We perform a combination of a ping and a traceroute to understand how packets travel through the internet so that we can determine the location of the IP address. Our objective is to map the e

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