[Starlink] Info on IP country ranges

[J Pan]

starlink advertises its customer ip address location at
http://geoip.starlinkisp.net (not always updated but good enough in
most cases and traceroute can confirm to some extent as well)
--
J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan at UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan

On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 4:15 PM Noel Butler via Starlink
<starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> I run an open access usenet server, but only for those within my CC, so access is by IP based on our CC allocations from APNIC.
>
> Because IPv4 exhaustion this changes sometimes with buying allocations from other regions, and if they get denied access I encourage them to let us know so we can keep ACL's updated, I've had a request from a starlink user who claims they are here, but traceroute shows them in .DE
>
> tracing some 217.foo.ad.dr
>
> ...
> 9 ae-6.r21.frnkge13.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.183) 290.223 ms 290.180 ms ae-1.r20.frnkge13.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.7.35) 280.523 ms
> 10 ae-1.a03.frnkge13.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.152) 290.109 ms 289.667 ms 292.864 ms
> 11 ae-0.spacex.frnkge13.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (213.198.72.19) 279.611 ms 278.840 ms 279.592 ms
> 12 undefined.hostname.localhost (206.224.65.189) 280.127 ms 278.506 ms 284.265 ms
> 13 undefined.hostname.localhost (206.224.65.209) 284.198 ms undefined.hostname.localhost (206.224.65.201) 274.663 ms 273.073 ms
> 14 * * *
>
>
> As it is our policy to not collect any user info or issue user/pass's and  only allow access by IP, I'm hoping someone here knows if they are full of it, or does starlink really assign addresses from anywhere? That one hardly makes sense for user experience, or maybe starlink has so few users in this country they haven't bothered changing anything yet?
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Noel Butler
>
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