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> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:17:03 -0800 > Subject: Re: Geoip information > From: coderman@xxxxxxxxx > To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > ... start Tor from Vidalia, and watch the Connection > > box in the Network Map, I see a connection opened to > > geoip.vidalia-project.net:1443 , then closed, > > good! did you see it actually CONNECT ok before closing? or was the > close a "gave up" or "no exit available" close? > (may have to watch closely) It said Connecting .... then Open for about 2 seconds... then Closed. > depending on how out of date your cached information is, there may be > hundreds and hundreds of IP's to get info for. while the request to > the geoip service does try to ask about many IPs at a time, it will > still break a huge amount into reasonable chunks, and thus multiple > GOOD responses are needed to successfully connected requests for some > router details to get geo coordinates. There was a geoip-cache file from November, which I guess is the last time it worked. I renamed that in case it was corrupted. A new one hasn't been created, I don't think. Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. Learn Now |