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		matsur on Sept 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to build a IP geolocation database from scratc... ICMP response time not useful for “locating” an anycasted address, some of which have logical location associated with them. See https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay/ for an example

cuu508 on Sept 14, 2023 [–]

Well, at least you can detect it is an anycast address, and mark it as such.

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