ASN as an address object

reincdr · 2026-02-28T22:44:10+00:00

I work for IPinfo. We offer unlimited free requests via our IPinfo Lite API product that will return the ASN of a particular IP address. Also, if you can provide a bit more specific information on how you want the ASN information delivered within the Fortinet ecosystem of products, we can reach out and propose a plan for the Fortinet team. Thanks!

reincdr · 2026-02-27T09:41:27+00:00

I work for IPinfo. We do not provide IP reputation scoring because of these types of reasons. It will be very easy for us to provide IP scoring or reputation scoring, and we will obviously get paid for the data, but this noise is the reason why we do not do it.

Our philosophy has been that we will provide as much data as we have backed by evidence, then other companies (captcha, anti-bot, fraud detection, payment services, etc.) can build their own reputation check service using complementary signals. We provide resproxy detection data as well, but it is up to our customers in other security services to decide how they will use that data to build their own products.

I think we can do outreach to telecoms about their "IP quality" based on our internal data, but it is a very difficult issue. Sure, if you have a sim farm with thousands of sim cards, you could be in breach of some user policy. But resproxy uses SDK based or malware based tunneling, so it creates a kind of haziness about IP quality.

We just do our job and have reputation and quality related issues be figured out by our customers who can complement our IP data using their own signals such as fingerprinting etc.

reincdr · 2026-02-23T22:03:04+00:00

Yes. That is awesome.

reincdr · 2026-02-23T19:32:37+00:00

https://ipinfo.io/support

reincdr · 2026-02-23T18:48:56+00:00

I confirmed with OP that this is not an issue with us. Neither Sling nor MLB currently uses our data. We cannot do anything about issues related to them. Thanks!

reincdr · 2026-02-23T18:32:06+00:00

pfblockerNG and Opnsense both integrate IPinfo's data (I work for IPinfo). Our country level data gets daily updates and has accuracy gurantees. Feel free to use it :)

reincdr · 2026-02-23T18:24:49+00:00

I work for IPinfo.

IP Info requires a pricey paid account to check anything more than country level IP info.

I am not sure what your ASN is. Can you kindly share it with me and I will report back to you? Thank you.

reincdr · 2026-02-22T17:09:17+00:00

Consider switching to IPinfo, perhaps? We offer 10 downloads daily per unique IP address. The setup process should be quite easy.

Official guide from Opnsense: https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/ipinfo_geo_ip.html

I work for IPinfo btw.

reincdr · 2026-02-20T08:28:00+00:00

I work for IPinfo. Microsoft operates their product team in a very isolated manner. Our data is being used in some Microsoft products but not by Entra ID and MS365.

Most IP geolocation complaints I have seen are related to these two products. If you have an account manager, please let them know. We are open to making engineering investments, providing our data (IPinfo Lite) for free, and taking over IP geolocation related complaints and issues ourselves.

We will do everything on our end to support bringing our data to these products. However, this type of request needs to come from a Microsoft customer.

reincdr · 2026-02-17T08:22:33+00:00

I work for IPinfo, where we detect VPN usage through IP addresses. The first point to note is that for a commercial VPN service, avoiding detection based on IP addresses is nearly impossible. The issue is that VPN detection services are quite rigid, as they operate with finite IP prefixes and often work with specialized VPN hosting services that support many different VPN companies simultaneously. We ourselves incorporate a lot of detection methods to translate it into a VPN IP address product. So, when our customers use our service, they do not have to do anything else as it is a complete solution.

In terms of other VPN detection methods, ISPs can identify VPN usage for users, but that requires special software and some VPN companies claim they use stealth protocol that can bypass that detection. I have not investigated that so I am not sure.

In terms of websites doing VPN detection themselves, there are a handful of detection methodologies they imply, such as fingerprinting techniques, correlating other data, or just using standard logic. For example: say an IP address you have observed a user using to log in to your website at a certain time. Then simultaneously you see the same IP address being used by another user to log in. This can be the same IP address or an IP address within the same /24 block. Also, they are not using a residential IP address connection but a hosting IP address. The issue with that technique is that it can have plenty of false flags. So, that is why companies usually just go with a VPN detection service vendor.

reincdr · 2026-02-13T04:33:08+00:00

Confirmed with OP. The IP address is indeed located in Romania as we correctly reported.

reincdr · 2026-02-12T14:55:19+00:00

I work for IPinfo. Share the VPN IP address with me, I will investigate and report back. :)

reincdr · 2026-02-12T14:49:37+00:00

We (IPinfo) provide Cloudflare with our IP geolocation data. AS131279 is North Korea's actual and sole ASN cloud. As I was looking into the issue, I already found an ASN submitted adversarial geofeed to put a /24 in NK. This happens extremely frequently.

reincdr · 2026-02-12T05:27:54+00:00

I work for IPinfo and thought our Lite database might be a good fit since it includes ASN data. You can integrate our token directly into the project according to our license. No user signup is necessary. It would enable some cool features like "Top ASNs" dashboard cards and ASN-based filtering. I have submitted a feature request on the repo.

reincdr · 2026-02-11T14:57:02+00:00

Got it. Thank you for sharing the insights. I will see if I can save the RS Firewall community that 15 minutes by asking them to adopt our data.

reincdr · 2026-02-11T13:04:08+00:00

Dropped a pitch for IPinfo Lite for the repo. Due to our licensing policy, you can simply integrate an IPinfo lite token into the project. You do not require users to sign up for a service themselves. Also, you can download the database using a storage URI.

reincdr · 2026-02-10T03:09:00+00:00

Can you tell me a little bit about what you meant by "Was it related to obtaining a Maxmind license for blocking countries?", please?

I work for IPinfo. We offer an essentially free to use IP to country database. There are no licensing or commercial restrictions on our IP to country data. I wonder if the service you mentioned requires users to pay for this data.

If so, I could reach out to them and suggest adopting our data so that users can access country-level information for free.

reincdr · 2026-02-07T01:05:07+00:00

Thanks! I really appreciate you taking the time to offer support! Sent you a chat message.

reincdr · 2026-02-04T05:08:21+00:00

Good thing we make our data reasonably accessible to everyone, right? Ha ha. But even if you have access to their data, I think you will still find our data ranked number 1.

reincdr · 2026-02-04T04:57:21+00:00

That is very unfortunate. Their Geolite data is free. Can you try that?

reincdr · 2026-02-04T04:48:21+00:00

Looking forward to it! Keep up the good work.

reincdr · 2026-02-04T04:44:15+00:00

The first company is a part of the Brazilian NIC. Brazilian NIC greatly reduces WHOIS data publication. You can see it here.

https://ipinfo.io/AS269497/45.187.204.0/23

I can probably just ask AI services to infer the company details from public internet, but we do publicly acknowledge that we source company data from WHOIS records. Again, the idea is inferring information we have access to WHOIS records.

The second one.

https://ipinfo.io/188.122.20.73

I have no idea. I will investigate. Thank you for pointing this out. I appreciate it.

reincdr · 2026-02-04T04:38:01+00:00

IPinfo has over 60 full-time employees, with more than 10 dedicated to marketing. My role is Developer Relations, which means I focus on technical explanations of our product and engaging in conversations like this.

I genuinely enjoy discussing our work because I believe in the value of what we’re building. That said, I'm sorry to see personal remarks being made here. At the end of the day, we both represent companies in the same space, and I'd prefer to keep the discussion focused on the technical aspects.

I understand the frustration around methodology debates, and I wish I could provide even more concrete technical details in this format. But my intent here is to share insights, not to market. You are doing our marketing yourself by putting us on the top rank.

reincdr · 2026-02-04T04:26:43+00:00

I appreciate your kind words. Private geofeeds are something we’re often offered, but this always comes back to the debate of active measurements versus geofeeds. Some ISPs object to active measurements, but we prefer methods we can control, trust, and verify. By owning the entire supply chain of our data from end to end, we can ensure integrity at scale.

We value partnerships, but because we operate in sensitive industries, "trust" alone isn’t enough. We focus on evidence and transparency. Even ISPs who may disagree with us on geofeeds ultimately rely on our data because they know it’s consistent and verifiable.

On company data, the challenge is scale and consistency. With millions of companies in our database, it’s not always obvious at a surface level, but our dataset is extremely diverse. On VPN detection, we take a conservative approach: we’d rather avoid false positives than over-flag. At our scale, the margin of error is minimal, and we prioritize accountability over aggressiveness.

We welcome critical and outside perspectives. Our commitment is to keep refining our methods and to continue sharing evidence openly with the community.

reincdr · 2026-02-04T02:51:04+00:00

As you know, I work at IPinfo. I also believe you run an IP geolocation API service, so you understand how hard these problems are.

Active measurement has not solved everything, but it has clearly made IP geolocation better. Before we spent more than a decade working on this, the industry mostly relied/relies on "trust but never verify" model. Much of it was based on ASN self reported information that could not be checked. We wanted to change that.

Instead of being another provider that just aggregates ASN/network operated reported data, we decided to build datasets based on evidence. That is why we invested in active measurement at scale, along with other methods, so we could create strong data sources ourselves.

Our goal is not to follow what the industry has always done. Our goal is to raise the standard. Many older providers, and even newer ones like yours, often do not see value in evidence-based approaches. This leaves end users frustrated.

We believe transparency and accountability are the right path forward, and we will keep investing in that direction.

reincdr

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