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I have several static IP Addresses in Google Cloud Platform in the zone europe-west3. However, I just noticed that they all are traced back to California, US, which totally defeats the purpose. They should resolve to Frankfurt!

It is not the same with south-eastasia static IP which correctly resolve in Singapore.

Why is it different with the europe ones? I have privacy complaints for customers now. Google support seems to be rather unavailable.

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    How do you KNOW they are traced back to california? Pos tthe stack trace
    – TomTom
    Feb 21, 2019 at 12:30
  • They are not in the US. Feb 21, 2019 at 14:08
  • This IP for example is a static eruope-west3 zone IP which should be in Frankfurt. 35.198.121.133 However, from the comments and answer I guess its just a confusion, isn't it?
    – ARAGATO
    Feb 21, 2019 at 14:17

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In general: an ip-address tells you nothing about the actual physical location of the system using that ip-address nor the jurisdiction the system falls under, because IP-addresses can by routed to every corner of the earth and beyond.

In absence of more reliable data points the geographical location attributed to an IP-address is usually taken from the contact information in the "ownership" records of the IP-address range. That will usually be the street address of the head quarters or the main network engineering department of an organisation, other IP-address ranges can be the property of local subsidiary companies with a street addresses of a local branch office and almost never the address of the datacenter housing your server.

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  • Does it affect on the overall server response time/performance if the IP resolves as a US although it should be German one when the request comes from Germany?
    – ARAGATO
    Feb 21, 2019 at 14:19

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