Cloudflare CDN is revealing my location

I've had this issue for sometime but normally my IP's location is somewhat generic to any other ip in my subnet but for a while now, upon searching my own ip where I have a home server hosted it shows a really accurate location. I have disabled IP Geolocation and refreshed my ip. Nothing really helped.

Idle•1/30/25, 6:31 PM

~~complain to maxmind~~ complain to your ISP

Chaika•1/30/25, 6:39 PM

Most likely your ISP is just providing super specific geofeed data to Maxmind/etc
Different Geo Databases have different policies on specificness, some go more broad

CChaika Most likely your ISP is just providing super specific geofeed data to Maxmind/et...

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:02 PM

Upon checking another IP from the same subnet that's not in any connection with Cloudflare (on the one that I have the issue I only use Tunnel) there isn't the same location "super specific" geodata. That's also confirmed on MaxMind as it shows the generic location that should have been. On check-host.net only when I enter my IP I get the result from Cloudflare CDN, others do not get that.

Bbig boobs Upon checking another IP from the same subnet that's not in any connection with ...

Chaika•1/30/25, 7:05 PM

CF's maxmind could be a few weeks behind if it changed recently to be less specific, could also be something about Maxmind's Enterprise vs normal offerings

Chaika•1/30/25, 7:06 PM

as far as I know/have seen Cloudflare simply uses Maxmind for everything and doesn't layer anything else on top of it

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:06 PM

The geolocation setting was turned off about a month ago. Also it started happening ever since I switched to UniFi, could this be something on their side?

Bbig boobs The geolocation setting was turned off about a month ago. Also it started happen...

Chaika•1/30/25, 7:08 PM

Which geolocation setting?

CChaika Which geolocation setting?

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:09 PM

In the domain I use for tunneling my home server I went to network and disabled this. Thats what I've seen on the Cloudflare forum.

Bbig boobs In the domain I use for tunneling my home server I went to network and disabled ...

Chaika•1/30/25, 7:10 PM

All that changes is what request headers Cloudflare sends specifically to your website. It has nothing to do with what other Cloudflare websites would see from your IP

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:11 PM

I see. So technically right now there is no reason MaxMind sees my location far more accurately even though I have refreshed my IP.

Bbig boobs I see. So technically right now there is no reason MaxMind sees my location far ...

Chaika•1/30/25, 7:13 PM

Maxmind sees whatever geodata is fed to them by your ISP/their other sources (corrections submitted, etc)

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:14 PM

Well I'm confident my ISP doesn't have anything to do with this so I guess I will contact Ubiquiti. That's pretty much it I guess.

Bbig boobs Well I'm confident my ISP doesn't have anything to do with this so I guess I wil...

Chaika•1/30/25, 7:18 PM

Ubiquiti is your router?

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:18 PM

Yes

Idle•1/30/25, 7:18 PM

they won't be revealing any of your ip location data lol

Chaika•1/30/25, 7:18 PM

It's not going to be related. You could submit a correction request to Maxmind, but not sure if they would accept "its TOO PRECISE" lol

IIdle they won't be revealing any of your ip location data lol

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:19 PM

Well I figure that but as said ever since I have switched over to Ubiquiti it's been like that.

CChaika It's not going to be related. You could submit a correction request to Maxmind, ...

Idle•1/30/25, 7:19 PM

would be surprising, yea

Bbig boobs Well I figure that but as said ever since I have switched over to Ubiquiti it's ...

Idle•1/30/25, 7:19 PM

correlation and causation, huh

Chaika•1/30/25, 7:19 PM

If the rest of the IPs in your range/same announcement are more vague (probably ISP data), then I'd guess there was a manual correction update just for your specific IP

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:20 PM

It's really unusual, another line that I have in relatively same place is not getting this so that's why I'm quite confused about this situation.

Idle•1/30/25, 7:20 PM

chaika already answered this

Idle•1/30/25, 7:21 PM

if your isp determined that your ip is of "specific interest" they will provide more specific geolocation data on it

Idle•1/30/25, 7:21 PM

simply because they can make more money off it

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:21 PM

Yea I guess. I started a chat with UniFi support maybe it's something I did. If that's not the case (most likely) I'll contact my ISP.

Idle•1/30/25, 7:21 PM

complain to your isp, there are very few other parties that are even able to access your location like that

Idle•1/30/25, 7:21 PM

unify are not one of them

Chaika•1/30/25, 7:22 PM

how would your router even have more precise location info to begin with? Not like they have GPS's in them

CChaika how would your router even have more precise location info to begin with? Not li...

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:23 PM

Well on setup it knew exactly where I was.

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:23 PM

Didn't give it anything

Idle•1/30/25, 7:23 PM

it?

Idle•1/30/25, 7:23 PM

every bit of information u are giving is screaming ISP

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:25 PM

I'm trying to avoid ISP as their reputation is really good and privacy has been a strong point over other ISPs in my country.

Idle•1/30/25, 7:26 PM

don't need to get confrontational with them immediately, just point out that you noticed unusually high geolocation accuracy for your IP, and ask if they have anything to do with it

big boobsOP•1/30/25, 7:26 PM

Alrighty I will.

Idle•1/30/25, 7:29 PM

depending on your location however, some geolocation data may always be very accurate.

if you live in a city with a cloudflare datacenter then the trace colo will ~~always~~ most of the time be for your city :akarishrug:

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