Re: How to exactly determine country of an exit node

[Olaf Selke <olaf.selke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nico Weinreich schrieb:
> 
> I've visited http://torstatus.all.de to get some tor servers from
> germany. I thought it's enough to look on the country flag, but I've
> noticed a strange entry on this page. I found a router with name
> "bleakgadfly5
> <file:///C:/Users/Nico%20Weinreich/Desktop/TOR/router_detail.php?FP=f1a05306b76358908111e15396e663344a186888>"
> which belongs to germany (at least all.de claims so) with ip
> 217.114.215.227 and the hostname of this server is
> "hosted-by-vps-hosting.co.uk". You can see the .co.uk domain and a whois
> for this ip gave a "GB" for country. So, do I have to check ever the
> whois for an ip or is there another way to be sure to use a german server?

I supposed all.de using a stale GeoIP db version.
https://torstatus.blutmagie.de using a more recent GeoIP database
correctly shows GB for this tor node.

Olaf
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