[tor-bugs] #14679 [Tor]: geoip seems to have problem with unmapped regions

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#14679: geoip seems to have problem with unmapped regions
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     Reporter:  starlight    |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  needs_information
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.6.x-final
    Component:  Tor          |    Version:
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:  geoip
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Comment (by starlight):

 Possibly the ticket should be closed.  I opened it in a state of concern
 about why a bridge was wildly misreporting countries.  Had noticed a
 couple of active connections that didn't make sense and dug into it.  The
 offer to provide a RIR conversion script was off-the-cuff.

 Without knowing the actual details, I would suppose that the big upside to
 MaxMind is the service properly attributes blocks that are registered in
 one country but actually used in a different country, such as the
 Microsoft Azure block written about in the press.

 The problem experienced could have been a one-off glitch, and would have
 been corrected by keeping the `geoip` file up-to-date.  Arma's point above
 about moving `geoip` into a Tor online configuration document might be the
 best use of time and resources.

 One relatively simple improvement would be to run and include a new
 `geoip` whenever a TBB is released.  Perhaps automate the process and run
 it daily to make that easier and make a fresh file available to relay
 operators and users.  The file included in TBB 4.5a3 was two months old at
 the time it was released.

 I just reran the RIR-to-firewall script here and observe that in the last
 six months or so, something like 10000 new IPv4 blocks have been assigned,
 many of which are V4 end-game 1024 address fragments from wildly mixed
 assortments of countries.  Keeping `geoip` current has become more
 important over time.

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