[metrics-team] Relay Search - Wrong country detected

Roger Dingledine arma at torproject.org
Tue Apr 13 21:41:47 UTC 2021


On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:09:59PM +0200, Stefano Probst wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I operate a relay which is hosted in the Hetzner Cloud in Germany /
> Falkenstein. Tor Metrics has tagged my node [1] with "country:us".
> This is not a problem for me, but analysis that would be done over
> that dataset would be wrong.
> 
> Is there something I can do to fix this? Some database in some git
> repository I can update or so?

Right, it looks like the new ipfire db has the right country for you:
https://location.ipfire.org/lookup/157.90.242.213

So now all that remains is for onionoo (on the Tor metrics side) to
switch to using the more modern geoip db.

(Thanks for running a relay!)

--Roger



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