Ben - Do you know if there has been research or studies done regarding the "surprising amount of adversarial data in geofeeds,from providers who are incentivised to pretend their IPs are in locations that they're not”
I ask because this would make a fascinating topic for a paper or session at NANOG, as it would help provide the ISP community a better understanding of what you’re up against in terms of trying to collate reliable data. Thoughts? /John > On Oct 22, 2025, at 7:31 PM, ben--- via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > Ben, founder of IPinfo here. We care deeply about the quality and accuracy of > our data, so I definitely want to get the issues flagged on this thread fixed. > > The best way to submit geolocation feedback to us in general is via > https://ipinfo.io/corrections. > > By default we perform a lot of verification and filtering to geofeeds, and > there's a surprising amount of adversarial data in geofeeds, from providers > who are incentivised to pretend their IPs are in locations that they're not > (mostly from proxy and vpn providers, and some hosting providers). It sounds > like that creating problems for some operators though, and we'll look into > how we can balance that. > > Happy to jump on a call to discuss our data quality and approach to > geolocation with anyone. And feel free to escalate any data quality issues > you see directly to me over email too - [email protected] > > Thanks, Ben > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CO2TITVYHMIQZUE5RC4PIS4UKDO7BA7L/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QR2PQHWRAN3JDBHXICXCCYLGPNNHJCVD/
