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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

I wonder if I could set up the map so that when you zoom in, it displays
the last 2-3 hops of a connection?  Then you'd have a better idea of
just how much it bounces around?  I guess I'm getting outside the realm
of practical, and more into "wouldn't that be cool"... ah well.


On 07/26/2012 11:35 PM, Alex Hanselka wrote:
> 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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