On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 10:20, Karsten Loesing <[email protected]> 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!
I run 3 relays with Scaleway, one in Paris and 2 in Amsterdam, the new alternative places them all in France. whois correctly describes the range as being in Amsterdam: % Information related to '51.15.0.0/17AS12876' route: 51.15.0.0/17 descr: SCALEWAY descr: Amsterdam, Netherlands origin: AS12876 mnt-by: MNT-TISCALIFR created: 2019-10-03T15:11:06Z last-modified: 2019-10-03T15:11:06Z source: RIPE % This query was served by the RIPE Database Query Service version 1.97.2 (WAGYU) _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
