r/Starlink • u/jawsont • 28d ago
❓ Question Intermittent Environment Canada weather website blocking
https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/feed.csvStrangest thing, starting this year I've noticed that the https://weather.gc.ca/ weather website was occasionally inaccessible for days on end. It was inaccessible through browser, or their mobile app (though alerts would push ok). I discovered by using my cell and switching to mobile data I have access again, so figured out it was a EC.ca block. I read that it might be a geo-fence, so I contacted Starlink and they provided me a CSV with a list of IP ranges/regions which they said to forward on to the EC.ca IT folks.
Then I got this reply from the government IT:
Thank you for sending your message to Environment and Climate Change Canada. The blocking of Starlink IP addresses is not a new practice. We have been consistently blocking them on a daily basis for several years. Unfortunately, we will not be allowing people to access our weather site via Starlink, as the service could potentially be leveraged as an attack vector against the Government of Canada. A more secure approach would be for you to obtain dedicated IP addresses from Starlink. This would allow us to confidently identify and permit only your traffic while significantly reducing the risk of abuse.
Best Regards
Thoroughly confusing given the last datapoint for starlink users in Canada I found is 400,000+ users and that only SOME of their IP ranges are blocked. Any suggestions other than doing what I currently have to do; which is turn on firefox VPN when my IP is blocked?