IP Location for some nodes in map are incorrect

filecoin-shipyard / 2019-filecoin-network-stats

(Deprecated) Dashboard by Kyokan for tracking network state of go-filecoin devnets in 2019.

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IP Location for some nodes in map are incorrect #44

Open eshon opened 5 years ago

eshon commented 5 years ago

In a forum discussion a user noticed "the network map shows my instances in the US while the server is physically located in Greece." Other nodes have incorrect locations as well in the network dashboard's map.

The network stats dashboard is using the free IP2Location Lite D5 database which has limited accuracy. We could look into purchasing a commercial license for a more accurate database to improve IP location accuracy for this dashboard in the future.

mishmosh commented 5 years ago

No objections, and with multiple reports of incorrect IPs this seems worth investigating. Unfortunately we don't have anyone dedicated to maintaining this repo at the moment. If anyone would like to pick this up, I can help with the license.