Me and a colleague are having an argument whether or not the SaaS application we use is hosted in the US or in the EU.
- The contract says EU.
- Various traceroutes (example from home below) say US.
In the example below, the lookup of both 4.59.145.42 and the end 199.15.. say they're located in the US. Web based traces from Argentina and Hong Kong also go to the US backbone.
I am inclined to believe the traceroute, but I want to be sure. Is there ANY way that this server can be located in the EU?
1 fritz.box (192.168.*.*) 3.030 ms 2.583 ms 1.234 ms
2 lo0.dr13.d12.xs4all.net (194.109.5.212) 18.564 ms 141.379 ms 17.804 ms
3 1323.ae3.xr3.3d12.xs4all.net (194.109.7.141) 16.790 ms 134.837 ms 16.450 ms
4 0.ae2.xr4.1d12.xs4all.net (194.109.5.82) 15.918 ms 138.149 ms 156.167 ms
5 asd2-rou-1043.nl.eurorings.net (134.222.93.144) 15.998 ms 138.796 ms 130.165 ms
6 ae9.edge3.amsterdam1.level3.net (213.244.164.205) 17.495 ms 136.072 ms 17.150 ms
7 * * *
8 4.59.145.42 (4.59.145.42) 101.048 ms 100.554 ms 99.881 ms
9 199.15.*.* (199.15.*.*) 103.954 ms 103.741 ms 103.530 ms
TRACEROUTE
says. All you can know for sure is where the path from the Internet ends. Once it's on a company's private network (Intranet), you probably won't be able to glean additional information from the trace. As a practical matter, it's probably at or near the physical location where the trace ends.4.59.145.42
that shows it as being in the US? I mean the entire4.0.0.0/8
is owned by level3 which is a US company, but their network goes almost everywhere. What every GeoIP database you are looking at, could be out of date?