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

[fl4co]

My relay (912709C7F560CC3E9FE9604B58D598B1BFAED8C7) is not on the list. The Metrics pages says it’s  in the UK, but actually it’s located in Germany. I guess the new alternative keeps showing it wrongly in the UK.

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fl4co

> Il giorno 7 lug 2020, alle ore 11:19, Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org> ha scritto:
> 
> 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 <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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