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Nishal_Rai
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Jan 11, 2024

Is f5 bigip asm policies(ip geolocation) database associated with Geoip database or ip intelligence?

Hello Everyone, I wanted to know: how does the f5 bigip asm policies ip geolocation categorize the source IP as an anonymous proxy, and how does it maintain its database, like the update interval ...
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    PhatANhappy
    Jan 12, 2024

    IPI - is a service provided by a 3rd party  "brightcloud".   it checks for updates often - automagically, it is not something that is provided or maintained by f5.
    https://www.brightcloud.com/

    Geolocation - is provided by f5.   Not sure of update frequency - but it usually a manual update.  This need to be maintained and if i were to take a stab at it - i would say its origin is  IANA, then cleaned and organized by f5 to be downloaded and implemented.

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PhatANhappy
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Jan 12, 2024

IPI - is a service provided by a 3rd party  "brightcloud".   it checks for updates often - automagically, it is not something that is provided or maintained by f5.
https://www.brightcloud.com/

Geolocation - is provided by f5.   Not sure of update frequency - but it usually a manual update.  This need to be maintained and if i were to take a stab at it - i would say its origin is  IANA, then cleaned and organized by f5 to be downloaded and implemented.