Missing Server Flag

[Dangermouseb51]

Noticed on my hosted Server that it’s not showing my country flag... this is looking at it from my own network... is there a setting to set this anywhere ?

 

Thanks Jim

[Maverick87Shaka]

Noticed on my hosted Server that it’s not showing my country flag... this is looking at it from my own network... is there a setting to set this anywhere ?

 

Thanks Jim

Actually there is no settings that you can change to force specific flag, it's based on GEO-IP localization only, i hope they'll give to server admin the option to override it. :music_whistling:

[Phoenix FR]

Thank you for that information. :)

 

 

 

It's going to save me time to search something which doesn't exist. I hope that we can define that settings too, because my server is displayed as an italian instead of a french server (even after the patch from today).

[Madfish]

Noticed on my hosted Server that it’s not showing my country flag... this is looking at it from my own network... is there a setting to set this anywhere ?

 

Thanks Jim

The question is: does it show the flag of the country the server resides in. Since this flag is the actual geo-ip resolve of where the server itself is located so potential clients can easily spot servers in their area.

 

If I do understand you correctly and you are hosting it from home the cause of this is your ISP.

 

Usually ISPs buy into backbone providers like level 3 etc. - the public IP you're being aside is usually tied to a server in your ISPs network. That get's resolved by a geolocation service like Maxmind, W3C Geolocation, Quova, IP2Location etc.

It can be very close, but also very far away.

 

For example: being from south Germany, if I lookup my own WAN address at

 

1. https://whatismyipaddress.com/ I get localized in West Germany, which is false.
   It uses W3C Geolocation.
   
2. https://www.whatismyip.com/ locates me in East Germany, which is also false.
   It's using Maxmind.
   

I'm sure if I tried another service e.g. using Quova I could get another result. So it can easily be wrong just by what geolocation provider is being used, but also because your WAN address could be tied to a server literally thousands of kilometers away.

 

 

If you meant you're hosting it on your own home network you can easily check this yourself and see if you get an odd match - that way we could at least see what geolocation provider is being used.

 

For 99.9% of the people, and especially servers in a data center, it should resolve the country nicely though.

[Phoenix FR]

My server is in a data center in Strasbourg in France, and the flag show it in Italy.

 

 

Whatismyip.com confirm the information :

 

 

 

• Location: Strasbourg, GES FR
  
• ISP: OVH SAS