[tor-relays] Location of Tor relays being incorrectly reported in Atlas

[Sebastian Urbach]

On January 3, 2015 6:22:59 PM isis <isis at torproject.org> wrote:

Hi,

> Joshua Lee Tucker transcribed 4.6K bytes:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Two of my Tor relays are being reported as being located within the USA 
> within Atlas; these nodes are actually located within London, UK - the 
> location is correctly identified when using an IP->Location service.
> >
> > I’m just wondering why this would occur?
> >
> > The two IP addresses are:
> > 178.62.75.82
> > 178.62.77.54
> >
> > Thanks guys,
> >
> > Joshua Lee Tucker
> >
>
> Hey Joshua,
>
> This used to happen to my exit relay in Japan, which was reported by Atlas to
> be in China (causing me to have a minor freakout).
>
> The explanation that I was given was that the Maxmind GeoIP database (which
> Tor uses in a slightly modified form) is created by Maxmind in some manner
> where, even if the IP assignments show that the IP should be in one region, if
> the IP happens to be more frequently "in communication" with another region,
> then it's marked as being in that other region.  However, this explanation
> seems erroneous and doesn't really make sense to me… so perhaps someone else
> can explain more. :)

I just tried the ip's on the maxmind website, out of curiosity and its 2x US.

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Sebastian Urbach

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