A couple million people between me and the geolocation guess.
Show HN: Improved passive TCP/IP geolocation
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#22Ran this about 10 times, it never once entered the correct hemisphere. Hint: I don't live in the northern one.
Keeps putting me in the middle of the indian ocean with high confidence. I'm in eastern Australia.
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#23Tried 10 times from Victoria (State) Australia and it once got the continent correct but that was around 2000Km west of my location. The other times were way wide.
Very interesting project though!
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#24Ran this about 10 times, it never once entered the correct hemisphere. Hint: I don't live in the northern one.
Keeps putting me in the middle of the indian ocean with high confidence. I'm in eastern Australia.
After jumping between Eastern US, Greenland and Finland, it's finally settled on Nigeria.
I'm in Sydney, Australia.
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#25I wonder if it connected to various servers using websockets and did some in/out message timing.
I think it needs to have some knowledge of backbones or something like.
Wonder if you had a bunch of signals, like telco, and timing informations, you could throw it into an ML tool and it could learn the backbone topology implicitly....
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#26Feels a bit overconfident - it was much better than the previous approach, and it got better over the iterations, getting very close - but however, 100% of the time my actual location was outside the circle. I.e., the center points seem reasonable, but the size of circle is unreasonably small because it's obviously smaller than your actual precision.
Same here, I ended up ~2000kms away (at best) from the circle (from Bangkok)
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#27Why not also include TTL field from IP header.
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#28The creator of the NLNOG RING did a very good job of this using all ~400 servers around the world, as an experiment. Was pretty accurate.
http://map.ring.nlnog.net/ (That triangulation service is now gone, I think)
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#29Will get a heck of a lot easier once the people at FaceBook, Google, Apple, NSA, et all get their way with IPv6.
And please don't try to tell me more about "privacy extensions". When I swim in a see of 4.3 billion address, I'm forced to share, leaving an undeniable possibility that I could be another person. While 3.4×10^38 identifiers could be so huge I never have the same address twice, the implementation does not guarantee that. Welcome to simplified tracking of users, advocated by the people that make money on tracking you.
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#30Can I assume this was meant to show my own location? If so, I can assure you I'm not in India, Pakistan or Oman (or the middle of the Indian Ocean) as it suggested.
So far it's given me middle of the Indian ocean and north-west Africa. I'm in Australia.
EDIT: Now it's saying somewhere in North America