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ipv6 info

Rapid account: Alex Herox
alex_herox
8 years ago

Hello,

We’ve detected that location info for IPv6 addresses is not very precise. It would give a correct country, but location is very different from the actual. And no timezone an some other information.
Is that a known issue and will it be fixed anytime soon?

Thanks,
Alex.

Rapid account: Fcambus
fcambus Commented 8 years ago

Hello Alex,

Thanks for your patience. We confirm the issue, it seems indeed that IPv6 geolocation is less precise for the IP you provided. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about this at the moment. This should hopefully be corrected when we’ll perform a database update at the beginning of February.

Regarding time zones, they are not provided in this case because the city was not detected, and the IANA time zone database contains four zones for Ukraine, so it is not possible to know which one would be the correct one.

Regards.

Rapid account: Alex Herox
alex_herox Commented 8 years ago

For example my IPv6 address is 2a00:bc00:8800:427:ec84:91ee:c16c:fe33

{'area_code': '0',
 'continent_code': 'EU',
 'country': 'Ukraine',
 'country_code': 'UA',
 'country_code3': 'UKR',
 'dma_code': '0',
 'ip': '2a00:bc00:8800:427:ec84:91ee:c16c:fe33',
 'latitude': 49,
 'longitude': 32,
 'organization': 'AS31272 ISP WildPark, Ukraine, Nikolaev'}

Location (latitude and longitude) is incorrect. I think it shows geographical center of Ukraine, but that is very far away from my real location. And no timezone.

And here is info for IPv4 217.77.222.52

{'area_code': '0',
 'city': 'Nikolaev',
 'continent_code': 'EU',
 'country': 'Ukraine',
 'country_code': 'UA',
 'country_code3': 'UKR',
 'dma_code': '0',
 'ip': '217.77.222.52',
 'latitude': 46.9659,
 'longitude': 31.9974,
 'offset': '3',
 'organization': 'AS31272 WildPark Co',
 'region': "Mykolayivs'ka Oblast'",
 'region_code': '16',
 'timezone': 'Europe/Zaporozhye'}

Location is very precise, it points directly to my town. And as you can see timezone is present too.

We’ve seen the same issues for other IPv6 addresses.

Rapid account: Fcambus
fcambus Commented 8 years ago

Hello,

Thanks for reporting this. Could you provide some examples of IPv6 addresses not returning any timezone? that would be helpful to diagnose the issue.

Thanks in advance.

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