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[Alex Hanselka <alex AT opennicproject.org>]

Well, the problem is, even though the endpoint is in texas, the server is 
still in IN. The IPv6 packets will just travel over IPv4 from the tunnel 
server in Texas to your VPS in IN.  This adds a few extra hops, but it is the 
same as if suddenly all traffic were routed through Canada. You wouldn't list 
Canada as the location of your server just because someone changed a router.  
At least, that's how I see it. Your traffic to an IPv6 tunnel is being routed 
through a tunnel server but that is still no indication of where your server 
is.


On Jul 26, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

> See?  The tunnels confuse everything.  Honestly I have no idea what
> would give a more accurate map for trying to find the shortest network path.
> 
> On 07/26/2012 01:14 PM, Brian Koontz wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:59:56AM -0600, Jeff Taylor wrote:
>>> We have found that by using geoIP to map out servers, many are pinned to
>>> the wrong locations (sometimes to the wrong country).  And there is no
>>> way to map out IPv6 locations since many people are using tunnels.  By
>>> manually entering the correct location of your server(s), you help
>>> increase the usefulness of any mapping projects for OpenNic.
>> Actually, wouldn't it be more useful to map the endpoint of your ipv6
>> tunnel?  For instance, my server is in IN, but the endpoint is in
>> TX.
>> 
>>  --Brian
>> 
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