[tor-talk] Strange behaviour from Gmail's IP to location service.

[Matthew]

On 01/03/11 17:42, Fermenthor BK wrote:
> On 03/01/2011 03:12 AM, Matthew wrote:
>>    In Gmail, one can go to the bottom of the inbox, select details, and
>> see account activity such as IPs that are logged in and IPs that were
>> recently logged in.  Gmail often - but not always - attempts to connect
>> the IP to a location like, for example, www.ip2location.com.
> Do you know which location is correct? Geobytes shows freeside to be
> in Glendora,CA with certainty 90% and when i use it as my exit node,
> news.google.com shows stories for Canada.
>
> Last month i had an exit node which ip2location put in New York, while
> geobytes thought i was in Norway and gmail just couldn't tell.
>
> None of these database are 100% right unfotunately.
> Daniel

Well, for example, fejk2 is shown by 
http://whois.domaintools.com/204.152.222.140 to be in Nevada not China.

OrgName:        SystemInPlace
OrgId:          SYSTE-51
Address:        1894 Hwy. 50 East #4 Box 317
City:           Carson City
StateProv:      NV
PostalCode:     89701
Country:        US

Ennui is shown by http://whois.domaintools.com/208.75.57.100 to be in 
California, not Washington.

OrgName:        BitPusher, LLC
OrgId:          BITPU
Address:        737 Post St #1026
City:           San Francisco
StateProv:      CA
PostalCode:     94109
Country:        US



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