[179664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: common checks performed when passing on an IPv4 PA allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Johnston)
Tue Apr 28 06:42:40 2015
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From: Colin Johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk>
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:42:34 +0100
To: Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> On 28 Apr 2015, at 10:32, Martin T <m4rtntns@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> 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?
>=20
you could use ripe atlas selecting nodes in countries you require and =
destination facbook/google/amazon servers and check results
Colin
