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

Alexander Nasonov alnsn at yandex.ru
Sat Aug 5 16:38:23 UTC 2017


Ralph Seichter 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.

A bit off-topic but after updating the client to 0.3.0.10 I noticed that 
torstatus.rueckgr.at some times reports US based exits which are excluded
by my config (ExcludeExitNodes {US}). Not a big deal for me but GeoIP
manupulation is a potential attack vector to reveal identities of people
who try to avoid certain countries.

-- 
Alex
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