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reisse on Sept 18, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being loca...

> but the traffic is _clearly coming from Germany_

How do you know that if the only thing you see on the receiving side is an IP address, which is marked as Iranian?

elwebmaster on Sept 19, 2024 | [–]

Marked where? With the assigning authority of the IP address which has been granted the legal right to manage the IP space (a common good)? Or in the database of some arbitrary company?

skjoldr on Sept 19, 2024 | [–]

BGP full view and traceroutes? It's pretty hard to fake the path that a packet takes to that IP address.

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