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Rust based directory application to collect list of federated instances
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Directory data is out-of-date #31

Closed g00g1 closed 1 year ago

g00g1 commented 1 year ago

There are a few thing I can confirm as stalled:

  1. Mozilla Observatory score. For https://encryp.ch/note, Mozilla Observatory latest report shows an "A+" score (as of March 10, 2023), but at the directory home page the "D" score is shown.
  2. GeoIP. The domain is resolving to 65.21.140.233 / 2a01:4f9:3b:2a5f:7ddb:ea01:41c4:f00b, both are known by DB-IP as ones located in Finland.

This seems like a bug, as previously this data certainly was updated.

elrido commented 1 year ago

Hi there,

I went looking into the issue, yesterday. For the GeoIP, we're using the Creative Commons licensed Free IP country database. The last update was in January, but even with the latest update it resolves both of these IPs as being in Germany, probably because the holder is a German company (Hetzner)?

After confirming that the score did also report as A+ on the API-URL and that the latest daily cron jobs had reported other sites to have had their score updated in the last days, just not this one, I restarted the service (it had been running for 2 months) and triggered another full update. That score on this one site was the only change that it detected, but at least it is now updated.

I wonder if the API request got cached somewhere, that a service restart was necessary? I'm not aware that the hyper client library caches requests, so there may be a bug in there in how it gets used, that leads to stale results being returned. In any case - for now I'll keep an eye on any differences that crop up right after restarting the service.