Teamspeak3 Flag Hide

[volkan2001]

hide flag? I saw it in some peoples how it works? would be very helpful if someone know. Thanks !

 

[Phyx]

This is not possible (practically). The TeamSpeak 3 IP database is stored server-side. Some IP addresses are missing or unaccounted for, which results in unknown IP locations. Basically if the database which holds IP range information that associates sets of IPs with countries/locations.. is not working correctly, some lucky people with an unaccounted for IP will show up as no flag. This is not done on purpose usually, it is just certain IP addresses TeamSpeak 3 does not have in a database.

 

[bl4uni]

Sometimes when I connect to a VPN which is physically located in germany teamspeak shows a romanian flag:

Whois Country Code:

country:        ro

Location as shown by iplocation.net:

Geolocation data from IP2Location (Product: DB4 updated on 9/30/2015)
Country    Region    City
Germany     Nordrhein-westfalen    Dusseldorf

Geolocation data from IPligence (Product: Max updated on 4/22/2015)
Country    Region    City    ISP
Romania

Geolocation data from EurekAPI (Product: Pro On-demand API)
Country    Region    City    ISP
Germany     -     -

Geolocation data from DB-IP (Product: Full updated on 9/1/2015)
Country    Region    City
DE     North Rhine-westphalia    Dusseldorf

Geolocation data from ipinfo.io (On-demand API)
IP Address     Country     Region     City     Postal Code

Geolocation data from MaxMind (Product: GeoLiteCity updated on 10/7/2015)
Country    Region    City    Postal Code    Area Code
Germany

What teamspeak shows:

My guess is, that teamspeak just uses the Country Code it gets from the whois. There are some techniques to hide this and then there should be no flag. I don't know how to do this though.

 

[Phyx]

Yes, TeamSpeak uses a country code although I believe they have a downloaded database which checks the country codes.

https://www.maxmind.com/en/home

They probably use the free GEOIP stuff (geolite by MAXMIND), you can get it here: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb.gz or check out http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

 

[Derp]

Sometimes when I connect to a VPN which is physically located in germany teamspeak shows a romanian flag:

Whois Country Code:

country:        ro

Location as shown by iplocation.net:

Geolocation data from IP2Location (Product: DB4 updated on 9/30/2015)
Country    Region    City
Germany     Nordrhein-westfalen    Dusseldorf

Geolocation data from IPligence (Product: Max updated on 4/22/2015)
Country    Region    City    ISP
Romania

Geolocation data from EurekAPI (Product: Pro On-demand API)
Country    Region    City    ISP
Germany     -     -

Geolocation data from DB-IP (Product: Full updated on 9/1/2015)
Country    Region    City
DE     North Rhine-westphalia    Dusseldorf

Geolocation data from ipinfo.io (On-demand API)
IP Address     Country     Region     City     Postal Code

Geolocation data from MaxMind (Product: GeoLiteCity updated on 10/7/2015)
Country    Region    City    Postal Code    Area Code
Germany

What teamspeak shows:

My guess is, that teamspeak just uses the Country Code it gets from the whois. There are some techniques to hide this and then there should be no flag. I don't know how to do this though.

This usually happens on outdated servers (3.0.10.3 - 3.0.11.1)

 

[bl4uni]

It happens on every server and also on mine which is using the newest version.

They probably use the free GEOIP stuff (geolite by MAXMIND), you can get it here: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb.gz or check out http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

But maxmind should show germany. If it uses something like this it has to be something which shows romania in the list. For example ipligence.com.