garz75
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7 years ago Hi, After doing some debugging (see below), I found out the issue for case 2: One of the IP addresses in the route is 169.254.1.219 : This type of address is reserved at IANA : According to its whois record:
<< Computers use addresses starting with "169.254." when they do not have a manually configured address or when they are not told which address to use by a service on the network. They are commonly called the "link local" addresses. >>
A badly configured/coded mail relay may have used the address of his "link local" address in the header...
When parsing the route, the MailHops plugins detects this hop as the "first" non-local, because it is not private (!response.route[i].private && !response.route[i].client): { "ip": "169.254.1.219", "hopnum": 3, "image": "https://api.mailhops.com/images/email.png" } But since this hop has no country code, the image variable is never assigned a value with a flag, so the displayText variable is assigned the value " Local Message" (image.indexOf('local')!=-1).
for the code to work, these addresses should be considered as 'local' by the MailHops server, or the code should be changed to consider the first non-local hop only if it is non-local, non-client and with a geolocation...
For Case 1, the problem is similar: The code detects as "first non local hop" this one: MailHops: FIRST={ "ip": "130.117.40.137", "coords": [ 8, 47 ], "city": "Vaduz", "state": "", "zip": "", "countryName": "", "countryCode": "", "hopnum": 1, "image": "https://api.mailhops.com/images/email_start.png" }
The issue here is that the geolocation data for this place is partial: it has coordinates, a city name but no countryCode. the image variable is not assigned with a "flag" value, so the displayText variable is assigned with " Local Message.".
Hope this helps...
avantassel
Hello,
I have noticed that for some messages, the icon/text catalogs the message as "Local Message", even if they are not (see related attachements below )
case 1: the message is marked as local, event if the 1st hop is not local (Valduz-Lichtenstein). Here is the route as found in the debug console: https://api.mailhops.com/v2/lookup/?app=MailHops Plugin 2.0.0&r=130.117.40.137,10.169.136.142,10.169.136.141,10.169.136.142,104.47.2.114,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1,192.168.212.10,192.168.211.32,192.168.212.10&l=en&u=km&t=6000 In this case, I would expect Mailhops to display the message as coming from LI
case 2: the message is marked as local, even if one of the hop is not local. Here is the route: https://api.mailhops.com/v2/lookup/?app=MailHops Plugin 2.0.0&r=10.111.2.120,10.111.2.78,169.254.1.219,194.161.216.31,85.115.52.190,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1,192.168.212.10,192.168.211.32,192.168.212.10&l=en&u=km&t=10000 In this case, I would expect Mailhops to display the message as coming from NL. It seems also that the total distance is way off, like if the last leg (to the local client IP) was not counted (in this case, the transatlantic jump from UK to the US).
If there is anything I can do to help, don't hesitate to comment or contact me directly.