IP address issues

[JackDoyne]

Over the past few days i've been having trouble accessing certain websites, 

I live in the UK and can't access some UK based website national lottery banking ect, The website tells me my geographic location is outside of the UK, 

 

I've tested my location with my IP address and some sources say UK and some USA, my ISP is Cogent.

 

Any ideas?

 

[Samppa221]

Have you tried this with multiple devices or just one?

[JackDoyne]

Just now, Samppa221 said:

Have you tried this with multiple devices or just one?

It's a company network, it effecting me and certain customers

[JackDoyne]

9 minutes ago, JackDoyne said:

It's a company network, it effecting me and certain customers

We've tried a lot of devices and seems to effect pretty much all of them, 

 

There seems to be a huge inconsistency with the provided geographic location  

 

Some will be within a mile or two of our location 

some will be 10-20 miles of our location 

some are a few hundred miles 

and some are 1000s of miles from our location 

 

 

[NoobCase]

Sounds like you have a proxy provider?

[Falconevo]

You will need to check the RIPE database to verify the location of the IP.

Be aware that IPv4 ranges change hands on a regular basis at the moment as people are scrambling for spare IPv4 space.   It's likely the IP range was originally in an alternate country and the RIPE database has not been updated for that IP range for its geographical entry.   Contact the ISP and ask them to take it up with RIPE to update their records.

 

You can search the DB here

https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/query.html

 

We transferred a couple of /22 ranges from Russia and it took over 30 days before the RIPE db was updated to show the ranges had changed hands.

[JackDoyne]

Just now, NoobCase said:

Sounds like you have a proxy provider?

It seems that some websites pick up the location of the ISP which is Washington DC

and not the geographic location of IP address... 

[JackDoyne]

18 minutes ago, Falconevo said:

You will need to check the RIPE database to verify the location of the IP.

Be aware that IPv4 ranges change hands on a regular basis at the moment as people are scrambling for spare IPv4 space.   It's likely the IP range was originally in an alternate country and the RIPE database has not been updated for that IP range.   Contact the ISP and ask them to take it up with RIPE to update their records.

 

You can search the DB here

https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/query.html

 

We transferred a couple of /22 ranges from Russia and it took over 30 days before the RIPE db was updated to show the ranges had changed hands.

• @Falconevo 
• remarks:
• remarks: You can find the whois server to query, or the
• remarks: IANA registry to query on this web page:
• remarks: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
• remarks:
• remarks: You can access databases of other RIRs at:
• remarks:
• remarks: AFRINIC (Africa)
• remarks: http://www.afrinic.net/ whois.afrinic.net
• remarks:
• remarks: APNIC (Asia Pacific)
• remarks: http://www.apnic.net/ whois.apnic.net
• remarks:
• remarks: ARIN (Northern America)
• remarks: http://www.arin.net/ whois.arin.net
• remarks:
• remarks: LACNIC (Latin America and the Carribean)
• remarks: http://www.lacnic.net/ whois.lacnic.net
• remarks:
• remarks: IANA IPV4 Recovered Address Space
• remarks: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-recovered-address-space/ipv4-recovered-address-space.xhtml
• remarks:
• remarks: ------------------------------------------------------
• country: EU # Country is really world wide
• admin-c: IANA1-RIPE
• tech-c: IANA1-RIPE
• status: ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED
• mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
• mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
• mnt-routes: RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT
• created: 2011-07-11T12:35:55Z
• last-modified: 2015-10-29T15:13:51Z
• source: RIPE

It says EU? 

[Falconevo]

If you can PM me the IP, ill take a look for you.

[Jarsky]

Cogent are a globally massive communications provider. Being a business and seeing multiple locations means it sounds like you have some sort of proxy setup. As Cogent are so big it wouldnt be unrealistic that you get assigned various IP's which may change location based on which office theyre registered too but they most likely belong to the same ASN - or all ASN's belonging to Cogent. Regardless, that shouldnt really matter, but it may be an indication that Cogent has some funny routing going on which may be causing some issues. 

 

Have you spoken to Cogent about it?