[tor-relays] Please help us find a working alternative to using MaxMind's GeoLite2 databases

[Sebastian Elisa Pfeifer]

My relays:
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* thesistersofmercy is neither on the list
* joydivision is located in RU, but is in UA
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Sebastian

On 07/07/2020 11:19, Karsten Loesing wrote:
> On 2020-02-12 16:05, Karsten Loesing wrote:
>> Hi relay operators,
>>
>> as you might have heard, MaxMind has changed access and use of their
>> GeoLite2 databases:
>>
>> https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/
>>
>> This affects Onionoo and tor, and I'm trying to find a working
>> alternative on the following ticket:
>>
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32978
>>
>> Today I think I found a possible alternative by using data from another
>> provider. But before I name it here, I'd first want to find out how
>> accurate it is.
>>
>> I tried resolving relay IP addresses of relays that have been running in
>> the past week and compared that to our existing lookups using MaxMind's
>> October database.
>>
>> The result is that 7669 relays (93%) had the same country code and ASN.
>>
>> I put the remaining 7% on the following wiki page:
>>
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MetricsGeoipComparison
>>
>> I'd like to hear from you which data source is right and which is wrong
>> (or if both are wrong).
>>
>> If you'd like to help, please leave comments on the ticket or in the
>> "Comment" column on that wiki page by February 19, 2020.
>>
>> Thanks for helping!
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> I'm bumping this thread, because there's (finally) news on finding an
> alternative to MaxMind:
> 
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/trac/-/issues/32978
> 
> (Yes, you'll have to scroll down quite a bit to find the news, it's a
> long ticket.)
> 
> Can relay operators please take a look at that ticket and see if they
> find their relay in the table with different country results?
> 
> It would be neat to identify patterns there and possibly improve the
> accuracy of the new database.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> All the best,
> Karsten
> 
> 
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