----- "Paul Reilly" <paulr at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Does anyone know where to get a list of the IP address ranges used
> by the major broadband providers in Ireland? I'd like to be able to
> restrict access via SSH to just IP's coming from say Eircom,
> DigiWeb, Perlico etc. I tried looking up the netblock ranges but
> always seem to miss a subnet or two. Are the ranges documented
> somewhere?
>> Also is it possible to identify the town/city people are coming
> from based on their IP? I'd like to be able to provide a localised
> web page to say people from Galway or Cork, that is different to
> the page for people from Dublin.
>
MaxMind would do the job for you. Mind you, that there is a huge difference between the paid for version and the free version. The free data is collected from open sources like RIPE/ARINN etc. vs. the paid for database is the data, that they receive from ISPs. ISPs like Digiweb, Perlico, UPC and for example the 3g carriers don't care about GeoIP whatsoever. Hell, Hutchinson 3g hasn't even asked they upstream to update the RIPE records for their segments.
Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
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