# How does geoIP for private IPaddresses work?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-geoip-for-private-ipaddresses-work/199699>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 16, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-geoip-for-private-ipaddresses-work/199699 "2019-09-16T16:16:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-geoip-for-private-ipaddresses-work/199699/3 "2019-09-20T13:33:46Z")

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@Igor_Motov If it is not possible to detect the location based on the private IP addresses, then what is it been done here:  
([Creating geoip data for internal networks](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-geoip-data-for-internal-networks/729/3))

or here:  
([Private networks with GeoIP](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/private-networks-with-geoip/138099))

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