[tor-relays] Relay in Japan being marked as a US relay?

[Jag Talon]

Oh excellent thank you for pointing me to the right place! I'll make 
sure to create an issue there.

On 1/18/24 17:11, trinity pointard wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> If tor's geoip db (which indeed is IPFire) has the wrong country for
> your IP, and you want it fixed, the correct place to fill an issue is
> on IPFire's bugzilla.
> You can see an instance of a previous report here
> https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13037 .
> It's not very important for the purpose of tor, but you'd be making
> one of the only embedable geoip database a little more accurate for
> everyone else 😃
>
> Regards,
>
> trinity-1686a
>
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 22:08, Martin Gebhardt via tor-relays
> <tor-relays at lists.torproject.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> unfortunately this happens more often. you are not alone :-)
>>
>>> Am 18.01.2024 um 20:50 schrieb NodNet <tor at nodnetwork.org>:
>>>
>>> I think tor and Tor Project use IPFire's DB for GeoIP lookups, and 198.13.48.219 shows the following:
>> Yes, libloc/location is used. I had the same problem with one or two relays years ago. This was then fixed by a manual override.
>>
>> This is currently also the case with 3 of my relays (37.252.255.135 / 37.252.254.33 / 217.146.2.41)
>>
>> However, I can't explain why. Because the hoster has a geofeed (https://opengeofeed.org/feed/as42473.html) and RIPE also has the correct country information.
>>
>> In any case, it is not so important to me that it is correct in the metrics. But it would be nice.
>>
>> Maybe I'll get round to mentioning it again on the location mailing list soon.
>>
>> Ahoy, Martin
>>
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-- 
Jag Talon
Designer for the Tor Project

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