[ms08]

Hi
2 days running I've gone to a new site that I am hosting a site on and the flag shows that the server is in Cambodia. (its supposed to be in Sydney)
I did a domain whois from the Addon and found that the addon removed the 111 from the ip address and looked up 118.160.187(Cambodia). When I inserted the 111 on the DNDetails website it resolved to the correct site in Sydney.

I'm on XP with Firefox 3.5.6 and the Addon is 2.6

Is this a bug?
MS

This post has been edited by ms08: 22 December 2009 - 10:52 AM

[Nathan]

To distribute the firefox addon, the Geo IP database it comes with has to be compressed. This results in inaccurate results for a small percentage of IPs.

The location result on the website should be considered the most accurate, in case the addon says something different.

[ms08]

Nathan, on 22 December 2009 - 04:21 PM, said:

To distribute the firefox addon, the Geo IP database it comes with has to be compressed. This results in inaccurate results for a small percentage of IPs.

The location result on the website should be considered the most accurate, in case the addon says something different.

But the Addon passes only the last three dotted quads, not all 4, to your website i.e. 118.160.187

I just did a lookup on Google and got an ip of 74.125.95.99 so I put this in as the url and it does the same.
Chops off the first dotted quad and searches for 125.95.99 on dndetails.com and tells me I'm on a site in Guangzhou, China

I'm more convinced now that this is a bug

MS

[Nathan]

Ah, sorry, I misread. You're correct, it's a bug. Thanks for reporting it. I'll be submitting an update soon.