common checks performed when passing on an IPv4 PA allocation from one end-customer to another

Tue Apr 28 13:23:53 UTC 2015

Colin,

this is a good idea, but in this case the network I am interested in
does not have a RIPE Atlas probe.

regards,
Martin

On 4/28/15, Colin Johnston <colinj at gt86car.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On 28 Apr 2015, at 10:32, Martin T <m4rtntns at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> as far as I know, some large US Internet companies like Google,
>> Facebook or Amazon restrict access to some services for certain
>> regions like Crimea or countries like Iran or North Korea. Do they
>> rely on services like MaxMind? Or do they use some other method to
>> check the geographical location of IP address? If yes, then is there
>> an API to check if an address is allowed to use Google, Facebook, etc
>> services or not?
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> you could use ripe atlas selecting nodes in countries you require and
> destination facbook/google/amazon servers and check results
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> Colin
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