https://ipscope.io/blog Technical dispatches on IPv4/IPv6 routing physics, RFC 8805 geofeed validation, sub-microsecond MMDB binary radix trees, and VPN/proxy telemetry. en-us https://ipscope.io/blog/ipscope-vs-maxmind-ipinfo-iplocate-ipgeolocation-ipscanner https://ipscope.io/blog/ipscope-vs-maxmind-ipinfo-iplocate-ipgeolocation-ipscanner Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Engineering Hasan Muzak An architectural and pricing comparison of IP intelligence providers: evaluating declared vs. physical geolocation, VPN and residential proxy detection, MMDB and Parquet database parity, and total cost of ownership. https://ipscope.io/blog/declared-vs-physical-geolocation https://ipscope.io/blog/declared-vs-physical-geolocation Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Geolocation Hasan Muzak How cross-border BGP announcements, IPv4 leasing marketplaces, and stale geofeeds break traditional GeoIP databases, and how active RTT triangulation resolves physical router location. https://ipscope.io/blog/honeypot-abuse-velocity-and-internet-scanner-scoring https://ipscope.io/blog/honeypot-abuse-velocity-and-internet-scanner-scoring Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Security Hasan Muzak How ipscope aggregates distributed darknet sensor hits, SSH/TLS brute-force telemetry, and port-sweep cadence into a calibrated 0-to-100 abuse_velocity_score with exponential time decay. https://ipscope.io/blog/sub-microsecond-mmdb-radix-trees https://ipscope.io/blog/sub-microsecond-mmdb-radix-trees Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Databases Hasan Muzak How we compile unified IPv4 and IPv6 routing tables into open MMDB v2.0 binary artifacts with structural DAG deduplication, compact pointer encoding, and sub-microsecond mmap lookups. https://ipscope.io/blog/cgnat-and-5g-mobile-carrier-geolocation-accuracy https://ipscope.io/blog/cgnat-and-5g-mobile-carrier-geolocation-accuracy Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Geolocation Hasan Muzak How carrier-grade NAT pools share a single public IPv4 address across thousands of mobile subscribers, and how to use connection.is_mobile and accuracy_radius_km in production. https://ipscope.io/blog/detecting-vpn-exit-nodes-and-residential-proxies https://ipscope.io/blog/detecting-vpn-exit-nodes-and-residential-proxies Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Security Hasan Muzak Why black-box fraud scores fail in production, and how ipscope combines WireGuard/OpenVPN protocol probes, MTU/MSS telemetry, and ASN classification to emit auditable reason codes. https://ipscope.io/blog/streaming-100k-ips-constant-memory-sdks https://ipscope.io/blog/streaming-100k-ips-constant-memory-sdks Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Engineering Hasan Muzak How we designed lookupBatchStream across Python, Node.js, Go, Rust, Java, .NET, Ruby, and PHP with bounded O(1) LRU caching, singleflight deduplication, and zero-allocation chunking. https://ipscope.io/blog/zero-downtime-atomic-mmdb-hot-reloads-in-production https://ipscope.io/blog/zero-downtime-atomic-mmdb-hot-reloads-in-production Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Databases Hasan Muzak How to download, verify SHA-256 checksums, and hot-swap memory-mapped ipscope .mmdb databases in live production processes without SIGBUS crashes or dropped requests. https://ipscope.io/blog/rfc-8805-geofeed-validation-pipeline https://ipscope.io/blog/rfc-8805-geofeed-validation-pipeline Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Geolocation Hasan Muzak How network operators publish self-hosted RFC 8805 CSV geofeeds, and how our compiler authenticates RPSL remarks, verifies RPKI ROAs, and filters out spoofed latency claims. https://ipscope.io/blog/parquet-for-siem-ip-enrichment https://ipscope.io/blog/parquet-for-siem-ip-enrichment Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Databases Hasan Muzak How to use the ZSTD-compressed Apache Parquet artifact included in every ipscope database subscription to enrich massive SIEM, CDN, and firewall logs in DuckDB, ClickHouse, and Spark.