Questions tagged [geolocation]
Geolocation is determining the approximate or exact physical location of a person or object.
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Google Compute Engine, How to get network traffic totals
On our google compute engine VMs, we are considering adding a firewall rule limiting access to specific countries. This requires geolocation IP services which is an additional fee, charged based on ...
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Windows Firewall blocking Remote IPs
Can anyone help me with Windows firewall blocking all ports for specific IP addresses? I have created an Inbound firewall rule in my Windows Server 2022 Standard Ed. As follow Name: Block-Brazil ...
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How to locate a server geographically from URL
In order to minimize latency for HTTP GET/POST requests, I want to setup a linux box near the server. Suppose for example the server is https://cdn1.telesco.pe I've tried with traceroute and whois. i....
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Why is a host sever location displayed differently?
I am very new to this field, and would like to get an explanation on the mechanism of the below. When I check the location of a host server, sometimes they show the location differently. For example, ...
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Benefit(s) of having servers ( or specifically, API Servers) in different locations for a single domain?
I am very new to this field, so my wording may not be spot on. My crypto exchange offers an API, and I stumbled upon the question when I was playing with it on AWS Cloud9 where I can change client's ...
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How can I figure out the physical location of my cloud server?
I'm renting a linux cloud server at a larger server provider somewhere in the US. I do not have physical access to the server - I have no idea where it is. Customer support wasn't able to pinpoint the ...
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Azure Database for MySQL servers: Location: service not available in this location for your subscription
I am trying to create an Azure DB MySQL server and under location I keep getting this error. " service not available in this location for your subscription." Could you guide me what needs to be ...
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www.googleapis.com geolocation failure
I'm using various things on GCP APIs and the gelocation for www.googleapis.com appears to be wrong: PING www.googleapis.com (172.217.169.138) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from sof02s32-in-f10.1e100....
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google vm instances does not seem to be on correct region
I created one google vm machine engine instance in eu-west1-b region. In GCP Console seems to be in eu-west1-b region. However when I try to gelocate my ip's they seem to be in somewhere in China. The ...
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GDPR and Office 365
We are based in Australia and have an office in London. Due to UK GDPR, we keep UK data hosted in the UK, meaning we need to create a new Office 365 tenant for them. We are too small (<2500 users) ...
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When using DNS from another continent, will IP's and CDN's reflect host country as well?
Lets say I am using Russia’s Yandex DNS from Canada, or America. Will I be served IP's and CDN's that reflect the host country of said DNS? And will they tend to be nearer to that nation?
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Keeps setting windows-server-2012-r2 up in america (cali) when location is set to australia-southeast1-a
I have just tried to set up 2 back to back servers in Australia but for some reason when the servers deploy they are located in America in California. Any idea how to fix this issue? Both Zones are ...
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Geo restriction of nearly all advanced functions for my Multi-Functional Personal Server
First of all, be patient, as this is a pretty deep issue, at least for me. facts: What am i trying to create? A multi-functional personal Debian-based (9.4 x64) server with these functions: 1- A ...
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How to block website for all countries except US and Canada
I have a website which is only for US and Canada visitors. I don't want to make it visible to other visitors. I want to use Geo targeting solution but I have a amazon hosting it did return current ...
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Geolocation Accurcy When Anonymizing IP
I'm setting up a new server for a website. I want to ensure that my users' privacy is well protected (at least from my side). Initially I wanted to not track IP addresses at all. However, I need some ...
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high-availability proxy with redirection based on location / ip-range
I've been using HAProxy for quite a while but recently got this issue that I don't really know how to implement/solve. +---------------------------+ client-europe \ | HAProxy ...
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Hosting in germany or switzerland - significant difference?
We are an ecommerce store with 95% of our customers located in switzerland. Right now we are hosting in germany (Servers in Berlin) and thinking about hosting in switzerland. The cost is almost the ...
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RDP latency optimisation on worldwide connections
I'm wondering how bigger companys are working around this challenge. Our company gets bigger and therefore we're starting to expand in new countries. Now a new branch office opened straight at the ...
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How to whitelist headers in IIS filtering?
We're looking at deploying CloudFlare as a WAF for our site. One of the requirements is that we restrict access to the site from outside North America. Fortunately, CloudFlare supports GeoLocation, ...
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Nginx as GeoIP Global LoadBalancer and actual distance from app server
my client is using Magento for it's ecommerce global solution. Main country are US / EU / CN. For now only 1 VM in Italy, serving all traffic. I would like to create 3 VMs, one for each country, on ...
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Lookup ip geolocation via command line
I've been trying to piece together a quick and dirty script to return the geolocation of a bunch of IP addresses. I'm using freegeoip.net and couldn't find a quick wget equivalent for cmd line so ...
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Azure Geo-Targeted Virtual Machines
I am exploring Azure for some hosting options for a client of mine, and one thing we're looking for is a distributed model, where we'll have VMs sitting on the east and west coast, and when someone ...
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Heroku geolocation dns and Amazon Route 53
I have an application running on Heroku in 2 regions, eu and us. Let's say: myapp-eu.herokuapp.com and myapp-us.herokuapp.com. I would like to setup a geolocation dns that points users to the nearest ...
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How do I control the geographical path of the packets in order no to face problems with the law
I am not a penetration tester but I was listening to some SANS lectures that someone has uploaded to the web. The lecturer said that pen testers and their lawyer should be very careful not to break ...
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American Users have wrong IP address geolocation
In order to display the right content for my users I get their country based on their IP address. I have been receiving several reports from American users saying that the content is being displayed ...
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Arvixe claims that my physical host is located in Europe eventhough the whois information
When I look whois of the site it seems like located in US. My site is: www.evdore.com. 1 * * * 2 hos-tr1.juniper1.rz13.hetzner.de 213.239.224.1 de 0.145 ms hos-tr4....
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HAProxy parsing errors
i have 3 servers --> haproxy - server1(uk) - server2(ru) i followed this tutorial and created ip for ru.subnets now in my /etc/haproxy i have these files: haproxy.conf ru.subnets in ...
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Moved to different country but want to keep a London IP [closed]
I temporarily moved from London to Milan. Despite keeping Google Uk as preferred search engine; Because of the location; I get more feeds, ads, reviews, and events from the area of Milan. What's the ...
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One IP address, two different countries [closed]
I was using multiple websites to determine the geolocation of an IP address, and ended up getting two different countries (on the same continent). What is the reason behind this?
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IPTABLES and GEOIP: Show Custom Webpage to Blocked Visitors
Because of legal protection, as a first stage of launching my project I will focus on couple of countries only. The number of supported countries will grow. I know, it is possible to block or allow ...
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bind: cannot assign requested address
I've recently switch over to AWS from Rackspace and I'm setting up a simple geolocation server using freegeopip. While the following commands work perfectly on a new Rackspace serve (Ubuntu) I can't ...
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Are DNS LOC records hidden/secret? [closed]
I would like to create some LOC DNS records, and I wanted to know if these records can be queried without knowing the subdomain to which they are attached. For example, it would be fun to have a ...
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Problems with CNAME In GeoDNS Setup
I'm trying to setup something similar to a CDN (Content Delivery Network) setup. What I want to do is use DNS records that return an A record based on where the user is geographically located. I was ...
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How often does the geolocation associated to an ordinary IP address usually change?
Can anyone tell me how often should i expect a routable IP address (either v4 or v6) to have its associated geolocation (country + city level) changed, in average? I'm asking this because i'm ...
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IP address and geolocation
I very well know that this has been asked quite a number of times here itself but folks please give this question a read. Plus I'm giving my best to phrase this question, hence the Prelude/Question ...
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Google location awareness problems over corporate network
Not sure the best place for this one, so feel free to migrate to a more appropriate location if one exists. OK so the situation is: We have a corporate network, joining sites in the UK, France, ...
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Do I need a local server to serve a website in Australia considering its cost?
I'm having trouble coming to a conclusion to my answer. I'm in charge of the development of a potentially large site for Australia. The task now is choosing a server. We will need a a powerful server ...
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DNS, multiple nameservers and geolocation?
Currently, when a DNS client makes a request for a DNS record (say, www.example.com., it needs to traverse the DNS tree. It asks the root servers for the location of com., which it then asks for the ...
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AWStats process dies while processing large logs
I have really large nginx log files - as much as 250MB. When I have ran like 10 days of the month of log files - then the next daily logs would cause my awstats to die. Like so: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/...
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nginx geo location module configuration using geo database?
I've setup nginx as a reverse proxy for a couple of apache backend/upstream servers. Using the GeoLite database from MaxMind, I'm trying to loadbalance requests between the two servers dependent on ...
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Location aware DNS with Bind9
I'm currently running a front-end caching server powered by Varnish. It serves up a few websites. I'm using Bind to serve DNS requests. The first server is located in the Netherlands, where as a new ...
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Nginx redirect and geolocalization
I've the following problem with Nginx and GeoIP and will be nice if you can give me some pointers about the solution. Note: I know this can be solved on DNS side, but that won't be possible by now so ...
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Distributed webservice, geolocalized access
I wish I could deploy a very low network latency webservice (running Linux). I was thinking about distributing some instances amongst several dedicated servers (eventually VMs, but not the preferred ...
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How do I deliver different content to country IP addresses?
We have been asked by a client to deliver different content (warnings, "this page unavailable" pages, etc) to French users due to a new French law. This needs to be implemented by Jan 1. On the ...
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GeoIP and Nginx
I have a nginx with geoip, but it is not working rightly. The issue is the next: Nginx are getting geodata from $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] instead of $_SERVER['HTTP_X_HAPROXY_IP'], which have the real ...
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IP addresses for Windows Azure servers seem to be from the US, when the servers are supposed to be located in Europe
I have a couple of test servers on Windows Azure. One is in the North Europe location and the other is in West Europe. I yet to get around to testing which location offers better connection speeds ...
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Geo fencing, ip address list of different geographies
I need to provide different webpage experiences based on geographies divided as Western, Asian, African audience etc. I plan to do this with Nginx geo module by segmenting ip addresses and routing ...
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How much does the geographical location of DNS servers matter?
We have started to run our own DNS servers located in Asia since that's where our main audience is. However, it seems that some users in the US are having difficulties accessing our website sometimes. ...
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Determining the State of a User using their Hostname
Not sure if this is the right SE site. I figured this question doesn't belong on SO, but if you think it doesn't belong here either, I apologize. I've been looking into determining the location, ...
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load balancing IIS7.5 server by geolocation
I have one web site and 3 servers in different location Asia, Europe, US. I am new in this things but what I want to do is implement ARR load balancing by geolocation (like CDN). Anyone know tutorial ...
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