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I'm guessing that the dots aren't a true geographical representation of the actual location of the IP addresses (I'm not too good at information or technology). I can guarantee that no one who lives where the dot is in Aus goes outside when the fucking suns up let alone rides a sweet fixeh when the suns up or for 6 hours before of after its in the sky.
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I'm guessing that the dots aren't a true geographical representation of the actual location of the IP addresses
Correct.
IP addresses don't really have a location, but there are companies like MaxMind who attempt to imply a location based on where traffic from the IP appears on the internet, i.e. London has a major internet exchange and if an IP is seen always appearing in London there's a reasonable certainty that the IP address is located in London.
However it's also total bollocks, because the MaxMind database isn't complete and only refreshes on a monthly basis and IPs can transfer ownership and they are constantly being moved around. And then there's weird things, like Marseille... Marseille is a place where a lot of undersea internet cables surface and so Chinese traffic may first appear on the internet at Marseille... with the result that MaxMind makes a lot of errors in their geographical attribution of IP addresses.
It's a solution that at best is mere "an approximate guess of where this IP may be".
A far better solution is to rely on Anycast networking, this at least reveals where an IP is based on the network topology... it's not going to be accurate down to a city, but it's going to be more accurate based on a region or country.
I'm meh about all of this, cute maps are cute but there's not a lot of value in them.
Velocio
Already blocked Russia...
Visitors in the last month (determined by unique IP address).
It bugs me that 492 IPs are mapped to Russia, but that's a bug in MaxMind GeoIP lookup as I did look at the POPs that the traffic originated and it was all Frankfurt.
So the block has been effective for all of the last 30 days.