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Geographically restricted sites have mis-classified a particular IP range

Ichinisan

Ichinisan

Lifer
I work for a cable ISP. Recently, I've heard from 2 different customers that were restricted from buying tickets through a Georgia Lottery web site. In both cases, the site said they were not allowed to purchase lottery tickets online because they were not connecting to the site from within the state of GA. Both customers were able to access the site after I forced their IP address to change. One of them had similar problems with a geographically-restricted real estate web site and that also cleared up after the IP address was forced to change.

What system do these sites use to check the geographical origin of an IP address?
 
In a lot of cases, DNS querier. If the DNS server they were using on the old IP could be seen as out of GA, that would cause the issue. It all depends on how your network it setup. If it's source IP the site uses, it's possible it could be ARIN they're referencing, and it depends on whether that range of IPs falls into a record outside of GA. Without more detail, can't give more info. There can be a few moving parts to figure it out.

If you want to PM the ranges, I may be able to get more insight, but it's also something you can do yourself.

If it was the DNS querier used, and they were using Google's servers, I've seen issues like that.
 
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