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Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

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295 points AndrewDucker | 3 comments | 27 Aug 25 20:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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miki123211 ◴[27 Aug 25 21:25 UTC] No.45045491[source]▶
Is there even such a thing as a "Mississippi IP?"

I.E. Are US ISPs, particularly big ones like Comcast, required to geolocate ISPs to the state where the person is actually in? What about mobile ones?

Where I live (not US), it is extremely common to get an IP that Maxmind geolocates to a region far from where you actually live.

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1. estimator7292 ◴[27 Aug 25 21:37 UTC] No.45045606[source]▶
You pretty much just plug the IP into a geolocating API and hope. There's nothing else to do. Any collateral damage is on the legislation, not any individual site or admin.

As you say, IP geolocation is unreliable. Unfortunately that's the only option. If it is technologically impossible to comply with the law, you just gotta do the best you can. If someone in MI gets a weird IP, there's absolutely nothing any third party can do. That's on the ISP for not allocating an appropriate IP or the legislators for being morons.

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2. selimthegrim ◴[27 Aug 25 21:39 UTC] No.45045637[source]▶
MI is Michigan.
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3. phinnaeus ◴[27 Aug 25 21:43 UTC] No.45045682[source]▶
Right, they might get an MS IP and be blocked :P