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How GeoIP Works: Mapping IP Addresses to Physical Locations

Your IP address was never meant to say where you are. GeoIP databases guess anyway—and the entire Internet runs on that guess.

The Farm That 600 Million IP Addresses Called Home

When a GeoIP database can't find an IP address, it still has to point somewhere. For over a decade, it pointed at a farmhouse in Kansas—and the family paid the price.

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