Comparing the Accuracy of IPv4 and IPv6 Geolocation Databases
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IPv4 geolocation has been around for some time, but IPv6 geolocation is relatively new. This raises the question as to how the accuracy of IPv6 geolocation compares to the accuracy of IPv4 geolocation. Since IPv6 geolocation is a reasonably new topic, litte research has been done on its accuracy. In this study the accuracy is measured using a ground truth consisting of very precise locations of known computer systems. Different IP geolocation databases were queried and the resulting locations were compared to the known locations for the collected IP addresses. It turns out that IPv6 geolocation is significantly less accurate than IPv4 geolocation. However, IPv6 geolocation shows potential to become at least as accurate as its IPv4 counterpart.
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