Closed sgiehl closed 3 years ago
It would maybe work. Depends on the provider though indeed and how often things are updated.
Eg tested 129.146.0.0
which belongs to oracle cloud. Maxmind detects Oracle Cloud
as org but DB IP only detects Oracle Corp
.
Using 47.254.32.0
which belongs to Alibaba Cloud then DB-IP gets it right but not MaxMind (which only reports Alibaba
).
I suppose there could be some manual checks though depending on the GeoIP provider.
this is done
If someone is using a paid geoip database or an additional provider database, the geoip detection could actually be used to detect requests from some clouds.
Didn't check how accurate/updated their detections are in that case, but might be an option at least for those cloud providers that don't offer a list of ips we can import.