Questions tagged [geolocation]

Geolocation is determining the approximate or exact physical location of a person or object.

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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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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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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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php5-geoip performance issue

I installed the php5-geoip module on Ubuntu 10.04 via apt-get install php5-geoip. I've updated the geocities.dat library The production server performance decreased and load average is soaring. ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it possible to "teleport" an IP address of a Windows 2022 Server, mapping it to a different geographical location?

I have a Windows 2022 Standard server on VPS with several IP addresses. I host several websites with my own CMS system, but I have one site that is owned by an American company. My VPS provider, the ...
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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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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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