Wrong country report for Oracle cloud and Hurricane electric network about searx-space HOT 9 CLOSED

Now Hetzner network is being classified as US country even tho the server is in Finland.

The IPv6 address of searx.fmac.xyz is recognized as originating from the US even tho it is from Finland.

Affected searx instances: searx.prvcy.eu, searx.xyz, suche.uferwerk.org, search.snopyta.org, searx.7m.ee, recherche.catmargue.org and more.

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With 631d7d1
searx.space uses ip2location.

Moreover, this commit 62bb962 fixes an issue that was (?) blocking some updates.

At least the results are on the right continent.

Also it is possible a hard-coded ; @unixfox , do you think it can useful?

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Well, the issue is that hard-coding a country is not a good idea with the huge amount of Searx instances in the list. Multiple Searx instance could change their location within a month, and we would have to track that and manually update to the new country every month.

I think at least ip2location give more accurate results. It is still considering that my IPv6 address for searx.be is in the USA, but at least for the IPv4 it's the correct location. And it's the now the correct location for all the instances hosted at Hetzner.

I'll let this issue open in case I find a better IP geolocation provider, but you already did a good job with ip2location. Thank you.

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I just found a better geolocation database than ip2location, it's DB-IP a free downloadable lite database which is available here: https://db-ip.com/db/download/ip-to-country-lite

They are the only one that offer very accurate country geolocation, at least it detects that my IPv6 address is in the Netherlands instead of in the USA:

[emilien@pcryzen]: ~>$ mmdblookup -f dbip-country-lite-2021-06.mmdb -i 2603:c022:c002:3500::dead:beef

  {
    "continent": 
      {
        "code": 
          "EU" <utf8_string>
        "geoname_id": 
          6255148 <uint32>
        "names": 
          {
            "de": 
              "Europa" <utf8_string>
            "en": 
              "Europe" <utf8_string>
            "es": 
              "Europa" <utf8_string>
            "fa": 
              " اروپا" <utf8_string>
            "fr": 
              "Europe" <utf8_string>
            "ja": 
              "ヨーロッパ大陸" <utf8_string>
            "ko": 
              "유럽" <utf8_string>
            "pt-BR": 
              "Europa" <utf8_string>
            "ru": 
              "Европа" <utf8_string>
            "zh-CN": 
              "欧洲" <utf8_string>
          }
      }
    "country": 
      {
        "geoname_id": 
          2750405 <uint32>
        "is_in_european_union": 
          true <boolean>
        "iso_code": 
          "NL" <utf8_string>
        "names": 
          {
            "de": 
              "Niederlande" <utf8_string>
            "en": 
              "Netherlands" <utf8_string>
            "es": 
              "Países Bajos (los)" <utf8_string>
            "fa": 
              "هلند" <utf8_string>
            "fr": 
              "Pays-Bas" <utf8_string>
            "ja": 
              "オランダ" <utf8_string>
            "ko": 
              "네덜란드" <utf8_string>
            "pt-BR": 
              "Holanda" <utf8_string>
            "ru": 
              "Нидерланды" <utf8_string>
            "zh-CN": 
              "荷兰" <utf8_string>
          }
      }
  }

It also recognizes the correct location of the IPv6 address for some Searx instances that are hosted at Hetzner. For instance currently the IPv6 address of searx.prvcy.eu is displayed on searx.space as being in Germany but it is in fact in Finland:

[emilien@pcryzen]: ~>$ mmdblookup -f dbip-country-lite-2021-06.mmdb -i 2a01:4f9:c010:1edb::1
  {
    "continent": 
      {
        "code": 
          "EU" <utf8_string>
        "geoname_id": 
          6255148 <uint32>
        "names": 
          {
            "de": 
              "Europa" <utf8_string>
            "en": 
              "Europe" <utf8_string>
            "es": 
              "Europa" <utf8_string>
            "fa": 
              " اروپا" <utf8_string>
            "fr": 
              "Europe" <utf8_string>
            "ja": 
              "ヨーロッパ大陸" <utf8_string>
            "ko": 
              "유럽" <utf8_string>
            "pt-BR": 
              "Europa" <utf8_string>
            "ru": 
              "Европа" <utf8_string>
            "zh-CN": 
              "欧洲" <utf8_string>
          }
      }
    "country": 
      {
        "geoname_id": 
          660013 <uint32>
        "is_in_european_union": 
          true <boolean>
        "iso_code": 
          "FI" <utf8_string>
        "names": 
          {
            "de": 
              "Finnland" <utf8_string>
            "en": 
              "Finland" <utf8_string>
            "es": 
              "Finlandia" <utf8_string>
            "fa": 
              "فنلاند" <utf8_string>
            "fr": 
              "Finlande" <utf8_string>
            "ja": 
              "フィンランド" <utf8_string>
            "ko": 
              "핀란드" <utf8_string>
            "pt-BR": 
              "Finlândia" <utf8_string>
            "ru": 
              "Финляндия" <utf8_string>
            "zh-CN": 
              "芬兰" <utf8_string>
          }
      }
  }

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• implemented in b376666
• searx.space should be updated in few hours.

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It seems like I can again reproduce this issue, not sure what changed that reverted the fix of this issue.

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Fixed. The mmdb file was erased from the cache.

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Is the mmdb out of date? It seems like it's reporting the wrong country ^^.

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Is the mmdb out of date?

Yes.
It is updated now.

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