Geolocation of new subnet in Brussel

Hi all,

A portion of our colleagues get rejected by Belgian official websites using geolocation.

Some internet geolocation service are implying falsly that IPs from the new Brussels II subnet 147.161.148.0/23 are comming from Swizterlang

Example auf wrong Location from (state 20230209 08:30):
IP Location Finder - IP Lookup With Detailed Geolocation Data | KeyCDN Tools → Country Switzerland (CH) → i’ve just send them a rectification demand, but can’t do that for all the geolocation services

What can we do to solve this ?

Thx in advance
Eric

Other examples:
https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-precision-demo?ip_address=147.161.148.2
https://www.geoplugin.com/

… and probably others …

this depends a bit on how external sites do their geolocation; which service they use for that etc.
See here eg two different answers:


source: IP Address Lookup | Geolocation

If they only check for ISP they either get ‘ZScaler Brussels’ or ‘ZScaler Switzerland GmbH’, depending which DB they ask.
Would they instead check for countr/region/city both DB would give the correct location.

I’m seeing this every now and then around the globe, but so far could not find a real solution (short of sending such traffic through SIPA if/when i have one which ‘satisfies’ the externals access list)

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One example similar to yours i had recently was ‘government websites in egypt’.
They (not all but a lot which we must use) demand ‘Source IP must be from within Egypt’ → as there is no ZS-CENR in egypt the only way was to setup a SIPA instance in one of our offices there and route *.gov.eg via that SIPA.