Why is this connected to Czech instead?
China is blocking vpn’s including secure line.
Hi,
actually, you were connected to Honk Kong servers and the fact that the Secureline is blocked within the China itself has nothing to do with that.
The problem is that the service you used to show your location had stale/bad information. Although we try hard to update real information about the servers we use, it is impossible to update all the databases and web sites which are providing such inforration. In this case, I would bet that the location provider took information that the servers are owned by AVAST Software based in Prague, Czech Rep., and used that as the location of the servers, which is wrong.
If you go for example to this site: https://www.iplocation.net/ you will get 3 different information for the same IP.
To get some real idea where the IP is located in, you may try to traceroute (or tracert on Windows):
$ traceroute 119.81.230.132
traceroute to 119.81.230.132 (119.81.230.132), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 ent-rtr-02--vlan816.int.avast.com (10.3.64.1) 10.189 ms 10.262 ms 10.339 ms
2 asa-edge--out.int.avast.com (10.0.20.20) 0.994 ms * 1.161 ms
3 rtr-sky-01--out.avast.com (195.74.76.225) 1.116 ms * r-226-076-074-195.avast.com (195.74.76.226) 2.162 ms
4 nix4.softlayer.com (91.210.16.203) 10.095 ms * 9.630 ms
5 ae0.bbr02.eq01.par02.networklayer.com (50.97.19.102) 28.986 ms 28.287 ms 31.112 ms
6 ae7.bbr01.eq01.par02.networklayer.com (50.97.19.80) 30.037 ms 30.841 ms 30.386 ms
7 ae0.bbr02.sr01.che01.networklayer.com (50.97.19.250) 164.837 ms 157.922 ms 157.685 ms
8 ae7.bbr01.sr01.che01.networklayer.com (50.97.19.246) 166.147 ms 158.596 ms *
9 ae1.bbr02.eq01.sng02.networklayer.com (50.97.19.249) 204.529 ms 203.516 ms 210.450 ms
10 ae0.bbr02.pn01.hkg01.networklayer.com (50.97.18.173) 265.249 ms 267.561 ms 273.523 ms
11 ae6.dar01.hkg02.networklayer.com (50.97.19.33) 269.589 ms ae6.dar02.hkg02.networklayer.com (50.97.19.35) 276.442 ms 284.647 ms
12 po2.fcr01.hkg02.networklayer.com (119.81.138.133) 298.389 ms * *
So you see that the addres is in 270ms away from Prague and to reach it, you need to go through hop named “po2.fcr01.hkg02.networklayer.com” datacenter which is obivously in Honk Kong.
Regards
Jiri Horky
Cloud Operations Team Leader