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by ChocolateGod 218 days ago
You check the country the ASN behind the IP belongs to.
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greyface- 218 days ago
RIRs don't prohibit out-of-region use of IP addresses or ASNs registered in their region. The country an IP is registered in is not necessarily the country it's being used in.
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ranger_danger 217 days ago
And they are routinely used in exactly this confusing fashion.
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matt-p 218 days ago
ASN is even worse, honestly. If I'm behind starlinks AS then I'm American? AWS, I'm also American? Level 3? American. Colt leased line in my office in Madrid, apparently I'm English.
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teekert 218 days ago
You are whatever your VPN exit node is.
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