IPv6 Geolocation per /64

[Peter 'PMc' Much]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 09:48:02PM +0000, Andrew Pavlin wrote:
! Think about it. Who _has_ to know your physical/geographical address
and its associated Internet address block to provide you with Internet
service? Your ISP!

Question: is an ISP legally oblidged to divulge their customer's
locations to Maxmind? In California, that is?

! And your usage profile is valuable (and profitable) marketing
data.

That's a bit different here. I rent my machines from a canadian
company, which in turn rents them from some french and german
companies, the machines themselve being located e.g. in Africa. Then
I rent my domains from another US company. Finally I get IPv4
alongside with the machines, and IPv6 from a different shop in
California (that latter being what I'm talking about here).

Now all this is not for some crazy conspiracy stuff; it is just
the cheapest way to get to all of it. So I have lots of weird
networking, offsite backup and all the perks, and pay less than 17 €
a month for it all. I don't do business so I don't need ample
bandwidth, and I'm longterm unemployed and can't get a job, so I
cannot pay more.

! Per chance, are you also using the ISP's DNS resolver (so they
can monitor all your DNS lookups)?

No, I actually can run DNS by myself. And we're not talking about just
resolver, but authoritative DNS server for my public domains, plus
split-horizon intranet, plus the resolver, plus root-slave.

Now I thought maybe some of You might know where that location data
is actually stored - because it doesn't look like it is in the
"whois" database - the "whois" doesn't seem to have /64 subnet
granularity, but the provided data has:

2001:470:1f23:1a::   -> Johannesburg, ZA
2001:470:1f23:1b::   -> Frankfurt/Main, DE
2001:470:1f23:1c::   -> Johannesburg, ZA

And it has something to do with the DNS:
the "2001:470:1f23:1b::" has a distinct SOA.

! As for "not wanting to receive advertising spam all day...", the
! Advertising Collective _will_ assimilate you and reprogram you to realize your sole reason for existence is to:
! 1. consume advertising, and
! 2. purchase advertised products and services.

Exactly! That's the spirit! Love You, keep the good work going! :)))

cheerio,
PMc