Hi folks,
My Tor exit, ecntor, recently changed from being listed in the UK to being listed in Canada, without any input on our part.
On the IRC channel, I was reassured that this was not a bad thing, that GeoIP is inaccurate, for example.
However, I am interested in what might have caused the relay to change location listing like this?
Thanks,
Duncan
Hi Duncan,
Duncan Guthrie:
On the IRC channel, I was reassured that this was not a bad thing, that GeoIP is inaccurate, for example.
However, I am interested in what might have caused the relay to change location listing like this?
Just to be clear, this 'location' is hardly an actual location. This locations are based solely on GeoIP data, that is know to be inaccurate [1]. There are lot of ASes(ASorgs) that can span across countries. It's getting even more complicated... But one shouldn't rely on this data as being 'location' of relay (see e.g. 'Liberian' relay [2]).
[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19437 [2] https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/BC630CBBB518BE7E9F4E09712AB0269E9DC7D6... -- Ivan Markin
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