Re: [tor-dev] Tor and IP2Location LITE

2017-08-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 9:36 PM, KL Liew wrote: > >> It is possible that this address is used by North Korea, they don't have >> a massive IP allocation and I would expect that perhaps there are some >> tunnels, but I can't figure out where MaxMind have got this idea from. > > We aware of a small

Re: [tor-dev] Tor and IP2Location LITE

2017-08-23 Thread KL Liew
Please find my comments below. > It is possible that this address is used by North Korea, they don't have > a massive IP allocation and I would expect that perhaps there are some > tunnels, but I can't figure out where MaxMind have got this idea from. We aware of a small number of IP ranges tunne

Re: [tor-dev] Tor and IP2Location LITE

2017-08-23 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Hi, On 23/08/17 03:45, KL Liew wrote: >> How is your accuracy for data centres? > > I don't aware of any research papers targeting data center only. > IP2Location should be highly accurate because we are using network > routing information to determine physical location instead of registrant > ad

Re: [tor-dev] Tor and IP2Location LITE

2017-08-22 Thread KL Liew
Hi Tim, > Are there any accuracy comparisons between MaxMind and IP2Location? > > We have noticed that GeoIP providers often focus on location accuracy for > residential customers. But we use our GeoIP databases to locate both Tor > clients (mainly residential) and Tor relays (mainly data centre).

Re: [tor-dev] Tor and IP2Location LITE

2017-08-22 Thread teor
Hi Kim, > On 16 Aug 2017, at 13:38, KL Liew wrote: > > In term of accuracy, you can find the latest research paper published by TUM. > IP2Location has good accuracy as reported in Table V. > > Title : HLOC: Hints-Based Geolocation Leveraging Multiple Measurement > Frameworks > Authors

Re: [tor-dev] Tor and IP2Location LITE

2017-08-20 Thread KL Liew
>> All in all, we (Tor's metrics team) are considering it! But it'll be on >> the order of weeks or maybe months before we can move this forward. No problem. Just let me know if any helps needed. On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 4:02 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 2017-08-16 21:19, Karsten Loesing wrot

Re: [tor-dev] Tor and IP2Location LITE

2017-08-20 Thread David Fifield
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 10:02:20PM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: > Okay. Maybe we could do something with archive.org in that case. It's > not that we do have a complete history for MaxMind's files, except that > we could probably create our own history from Tor's Git repository which > contains fi

Re: [tor-dev] Tor and IP2Location LITE

2017-08-20 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 2017-08-16 21:19, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 2017-08-16 05:38, KL Liew wrote: >> All, > > Hi Kim, > >> My name is Kim, the founder of IP2Location, a geolocation service >> provider since 2002. >> >> It looks like Tor is looking to review other providers for GeoIP service >> while I was readin

Re: [tor-dev] Tor and IP2Location LITE

2017-08-16 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 2017-08-16 05:38, KL Liew wrote: > All, Hi Kim, > My name is Kim, the founder of IP2Location, a geolocation service > provider since 2002. > > It looks like Tor is looking to review other providers for GeoIP service > while I was reading one of a meeting minute for a meeting back in March > 2

[tor-dev] Tor and IP2Location LITE

2017-08-15 Thread KL Liew
All, My name is Kim, the founder of IP2Location, a geolocation service provider since 2002. It looks like Tor is looking to review other providers for GeoIP service while I was reading one of a meeting minute for a meeting back in March 2017. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/mee