What do "Top Regions" mean?

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JeeHaa

• August 03, 2021 16:14
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Looks like the top regions does not actually indicate to/from what region the data is flowing, but more likely the location of the company that owns the IP? For example, when I uploaded data to Azure Westeurope it shows up as "United States" in Top Regions (I guess Microsoft). I also noticed this for other services that are using regional endpoints. Why is this not using GeoIP data?

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  Firewalla

  • August 04, 2021 14:34

  It is based on GeoIP; 

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  JeeHaa

  • August 05, 2021 16:57
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  Thanks, I guess the issue must be with the database accuracy then?

  In this case it was a large upload to an Azure storage account in West Europe (52.239.140.42).

  When I check the IP in MaxMind database, it is correctly identified as being in NL, Amsterdam:

  GeoIP2 City Results

  IP Address	Country Code	Location	Network	Postal Code	Approximate Coordinates*	Accuracy Radius (km)	ISP	Organization	Domain	Metro Code
  52.239.140.42	NL	Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, Europe	52.239.140.0/22	1012	52.3716, 4.8883	1000	Microsoft Corporation	Microsoft Azure

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  Which GeoIp provider is used by Firewalla?

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