Re:No Nat November: My Month Without IPv4
by jeroenhd on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @07:29AM
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I went on holiday to Germany for one week and left the VPN to my home network on. When I came back, I had to wait two weeks before Google believed that I was no longer in Germany. The language settings were easy to change, but the "this content is not available in your country" message that Youtube seems to default to in Germany was rather annoying.
Google was actually reasonably quick. I've had to deal with GeoIP providers marking an eastern European IPv4 block sold to a Dutch ISP which took months, and I think a few services still think that block belongs to some Ukranian ISP.
If you update your HE information, the GeoIP databases will update too, but it can take a while. Every site admin that manually downloads their GeoIP database needs to update theirs before you can visit your site.
This is also a lesson to web admins: if you're going to use GeoIP databases for country blacklisting, update them often. Unless you've containered yourself to hell, your OS distro probably automatically distributes databases in some form.
Google was actually reasonably quick. I've had to deal with GeoIP providers marking an eastern European IPv4 block sold to a Dutch ISP which took months, and I think a few services still think that block belongs to some Ukranian ISP.
If you update your HE information, the GeoIP databases will update too, but it can take a while. Every site admin that manually downloads their GeoIP database needs to update theirs before you can visit your site.
This is also a lesson to web admins: if you're going to use GeoIP databases for country blacklisting, update them often. Unless you've containered yourself to hell, your OS distro probably automatically distributes databases in some form.