Re: Why does Gmail claim Tor IPs are located in one country when blutmagie.de claims they are located in a different country?

[Matthew <pumpkin@xxxxxxxxx>]

 I go to http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ and have a look at the exit
> > node "gigatux" called emohawk2.gigatux.com and located at
> > 78.129.201.189.
> >
> > This appears to be located in the UK according to blutmagie.de.
> whois and RIPE agree with blutmagie.  Gmail is wrong.  Perhaps they use
> different geoip databases.
>
> If you look at your circuits, are you exiting from the UK or do you
> have split circuits where some may be going to gstatic.com through
> another place?
I am not sure what "split circuits" are but I assume it is where multiple 
exit nodes are used to access the website.

In this case I was using "gigatux" with StrictExitNodes = 1 so AIUI all 
traffic is accessing Gmail (and therefore gstatic.com) via one node based 
in the UK.
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