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hrbrmstr / ipapi

An R package to geolocate IPv4/6 addresses and/or domain names using ip-api.com's API
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Fixes error thrown when proxy refuses connection #4

Closed ghost closed 8 years ago

hrbrmstr commented 8 years ago

thx. the rgeolocate package — which uses the free maxmind data sets — is probably better to use (it's definitely faster and is probably as accurate or more if you use the commercial database).

hrbrmstr commented 8 years ago

The iptools package has support for detecting if an IP address in a set of CIDR blocks and it's definitely possible to get a list of CIDR blocks for anonymous proxies and Tor exit nodes (etc). You could then do the test for inclusion and make a somewhat confident determination of whether an IP is anonymized. You should be able to obtain data sets from open source proxies like squid.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Bryan Britten notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the tip; I'll definitely check it out. Random question for you: are you aware of any packages, databases, and/or methods than can be employed to detect if an IP address is anonymized in any way?

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