On 2018/06/12 14:45, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12 June 2018 at 14:39, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>     On 2018/06/12 13:45, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
>     > Looks Bulgarian to me, and I'm not even a robotic geocache..
>     >
>     > inetnum:        185.161.4.0 - 185.161.7.255
>     > netname:        BG-UEDELTA-20160726
> 
>     The RIPE db entry looks alright to me, specifically:
> 
>     > country:        GB
> 
>                       ^^ this is set correctly
> 
> 
> I also saw that, but the fact that he is not getting the right geoloc in 
> practice from everyone
> suggests that is not what all the providers are using...

Record last updated a couple of weeks ago, if that's when the country
change was made I think it would be unlikely for many geoloc providers to
have picked it up by themselves without a prodding..

>     One specific problem you will have is that if people are using the old
>     free MaxMind geolite database, there are *no* more updates, the last one
>     available lists you in Bulgaria. So people using this will either need
>     to pay for the commercial database (which still gets updates for a
>     little while longer) or rewrite their code against the libmaxminddb
>     API instead which is a lot more to ask of the site operator than "please
>     update your database to the newest".. Consolation there is that this is
>     likely to be small/less important sites.

btw, more info on this at
https://blog.maxmind.com/2018/01/02/discontinuation-of-the-geolite-legacy-databases/


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