Tor Relay Search showing location of some relays incorrectly

Support Relay Operator
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Hello,

I noticed that for some of my relays the Tor metrics page is showing an incorrect location. Should I be bothered and is there any way to fix it?

Examples:

  • Fingerprint 6229DA468C49BE4B93A72B66DEC3F1C14594B9D8 is showing up as located in Australia with AS number “AS0” and AS Name “unknown” - This relay is actually located in the UK. Link: Relay Search

  • Fingerprint 470E022CB539F567F3CCD48B339DB7ECB5EC0C48 has the correct AS Number and AS Name, but is actually located in the USA instead of Germany. This is true for all 52 relays I am hosting at this AS. Link: Relay Search

  • Fingerprint D5EE34CB17A9896B39CCE8362FE92EBB17E56A4A has the correct AS Number and AS Name, but is actually located in Japan instead of the USA. Link: Relay Search

Thanks!

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Moving this to the Relay Operator category since it has to do with ipfire geoip rather than our website. Please refer to Ticket #40336 for more information on this!

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Thanks for moving it to the right category.

This however, is not the 100% solution. Let’s just look at the first relay I mentioned on ipfire: location.ipfire.org - Location of 103.175.234.144

Bang, it shows up correctly. It just doesn’t do so on Tor Relay Search: Relay Search

For the other two examples the data between ipfire and Tor Relay Search matches and I will try it as described in the link.

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Just a quick update - I opened a ticket at the ipfire project for this on December 20th as described in the link by @championquizzer

A bit more than a week later, nothing has changed. I received I think 3 or 4 emails from them asking me to donate to the project (which is probably a cool cause - didn’t look into it much), but in terms of location lookup nothing has happened.

I’ll update this thread if things should change. I know it’s just been Christmas.

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Quick update: The location change I requested on IPfire is done now and it is already starting to show on the Tor Relay Search page.

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Sorry to bump, but this issue is happening again for a lot of OVH servers in Australia. Many are being listed as being in Canada, for example, 139.99.239.135 is showing up in Canada.

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chris via Tor Project Forum:

Sorry to bump, but this issue is happening again for a lot of OVH servers in Australia. Many are being listed as being in Canada, for example, 139.99.239.135 is showing up in Canada.

No worries and thanks for noticing. I think this should be fixed now.

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Here are a few IPs that need to be corrected for geolocation on Tor Metrics:

IP Address Current Correct Location
216.73.159.101 United States Chile
143.244.136.168 United States India
138.68.69.37 United States Germany
159.89.174.9 United States India
172.107.241.110 United States Spain

Incorrect geolocations tend to show up for DigitalOcean and Psychz.

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Additionally 181.119.30.26 should be Colombia