Hi, I was messing with rethink dns to see what was its possibilities. then I saw this “surprise”. Is this a normal behaviour ? Do we know what it does ? Does anyone has observed this on its phone ?

Edit : got an answer on eOS forum, it confirms what you guys told me :

rethink uses ipinfo lite (db-ip.com before) - their info atm says germany. it’s a hetzner ip anyway. If you trace the network path you’ll see it’s their fsn1 datacenter.

incorrect display of GeoIP data · Issue #2499 · celzero/rethink-app · GitHub

It looks like there could be a bug in how Rethink “searches” IP ranges to geo location… Rethink doesn’t use the mmdb format, but pre-processes the csv (code) to make it “searchable”.

Thank you all for your help :)

  • carbs
    24·
    18 days ago

    A trace route seems to indicate that the IP address is in Germany and currently belongs to Hetzner.

    As others have said, most probably an incorrect geoip entry.

    • ajikeshi
      71·
      18 days ago

      or one that hasn’t updated yet… ip blocks change owners from time to time

    • kronarbobOP
      3·
      18 days ago

      Thanks for the answer, it’s definitively reassuring that all the answers point to this kind of situation.