[tor-relays] Go home GeoIP, you're drunk.

niftybunny abuse at to-surf-and-protect.net
Thu Aug 3 22:08:11 UTC 2017


> On 3. Aug 2017, at 23:52, Ralph Seichter <tor-relays-ml at horus-it.de> wrote:
> 
> I moved a Tor relay to new hardware, keeping the keys. Both old and new
> server are located in Germany and provided by the same hosting company.
> After the latest Atlas update, I was surprised to see that the IPv4
> address is listed as belonging to an AS in Ukraine. A little more
> digging returned Guangzhou, China, as the supposed location based on the
> server's IPv6 address.

Welcome to the wonderful world of drunk GeoIPs. They are not always correct, you didn’t expect that, right, RIGHT?

> 
> Is there anything I can/should do about this (I doubt it)?

No.

> Will this
> affect my Tor node consensus weight?

Njet.

> As it is not an exit node, I am
> hoping it won't matter much.
> 

Get yourself booze and join your GeoIPs.

> -Ralph

niftybunny

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