> On 11 Nov 2015, at 12:15, Kenneth Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 11/10/2015 04:19 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >> >>> On 11 Nov 2015, at 09:44, Kenneth Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> What jumped out for me were the 109 relays (!) northeast of Wichita, >>> Kansas. At first I assumed Lawrence, it being a college town and all, >>> but it's Potwin, estimated population 441. >> >> Any IP to location mapping is imperfect, which is why location-aware secure >> protocols are hard. > > No kidding! I figured it was an artifact of some sort. > >> When I looked up the local servers of some big US companies, they were all >> listed as being on the US west coast, rather than the Australian east coast. >> That's a pretty big inaccuracy. > > I've often wondered how these faux locations are actually generated, > which is an interesting study in and of itself. The map is not the > territory and all that.
The ones I saw seemed to be based on the location of the legal entity controlling the server or data center, not the location of the data center itself. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F
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