Re: [44net] Network 44.190.0.0/16 - Further information

Note that due to this, the approximate location in IP geolocation databases has to be set for each of the /24 subnets. The default location for 44.0.0.0/8 is San Diego, California, USA. I have set the location for 44.137.0.0/16 to Amsterdam, Netherlands and other country ip coordinators have done similar for their countries. And of course an individual amateur can set a more accurate location for their smaller subnet. It comes into play for some services that use IP location aware DNS to direct users to a geographically closest (and hopefully this translates to closest in network topology) service. With all the 44.190.0.0/16 networks located in San Diego this of course isn't going to work. Echolink is such a service that users IP geolocation. You can enter an address from your subnet in lookup services like this: https://www.iplocation.net/ It shows what some of the more important services return for your location. And when clicking on the link for each service it is usually easy to submit location data for a subnet to that service provider. Rob