IPv6 Geolocation per /64

Marco Moock mm at dorfdsl.de
Tue Feb 18 19:04:28 UTC 2025


Am 18.02.2025 um 18:50:31 Uhr schrieb Peter 'PMc' Much:

> Consideration:
>    Since every /64 in IPv6 carries it's own distinct geolocation info,
>    there must be somewhere a database of -quick average- 2^64 =
>    18446744073709551616 records.

Much less.
Only 2000::/3 is GUA and only a small amount of that is allocated to
LIRs (ISPs). They only use a portion of that for serving their
customers.

> I'm currently trying to figure out where that database is located.

I can't help you with that, although Maxmind has such a service.
https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address

At least for my IP the geo information I get from there is simply junk.

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Gruß
Marco

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