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I have an AWS server with availability in EU West (Paris).

IP: 35.180.120.0 Public DNS of server: ec2-35-180-120-0.eu-west-3.compute.amazonaws.com

When using visual Traceroute, the final country shows USA not France.

There also seems to be a large number of hops.

Test results: https://www.monitis.com/traceroute/index.jsp?url=quickbus.com&testId=2439438

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Any ideas Why?

James
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IP geolocation is hard. This is simply a mistake since hops 13 through 25 are clearly not in the US.

But whatever IP geolocation service monitis is using simply returns a wrong location. It's probably returning a US location because these IPs belong to Amazon and Amazon itself is registered in the US.

If you want better geolocation, use a service like db-ip. They're pretty good.

Also, Mat is right. The fact that the locations are approximate are clearly written in the fine print in the screenshot you posted.

Malt
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