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<br><br><br>> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:17:03 -0800<br>> Subject: Re: Geoip information<br>> From: coderman@gmail.com<br>> To: or-talk@freehaven.net<br>> <br><br>> > ... start Tor from Vidalia, and watch the Connection<br>> > box in the Network Map, I see a connection opened to<br>> > geoip.vidalia-project.net:1443 , then closed,<br>> <br>> good! did you see it actually CONNECT ok before closing? or was the<br>> close a "gave up" or "no exit available" close?<br>> (may have to watch closely)<br><br>It said Connecting .... then Open for about 2 seconds... then Closed.<br><br>> depending on how out of date your cached information is, there may be<br>> hundreds and hundreds of IP's to get info for. while the request to<br>> the geoip service does try to ask about many IPs at a time, it will<br>> still break a huge amount into reasonable chunks, and thus multiple<br>> GOOD responses are needed to successfully connected requests for some<br>> router details to get geo coordinates.<br><br>There was a geoip-cache file from November, which I guess is the last time it worked.<br>I renamed that in case it was corrupted. A new one hasn't been created, I don't think.<br><br /><hr />Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. <a href='http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_getmore_092008' target='_new'>Learn Now</a></body>
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