ASM Monitoring station on EMEA

Products

• CA App Synthetic Monitor

Issue/Introduction

There has been an alert that some monitoring stations IP are not listed as in Europe: this is unexpected and causes a security issue, monitored applications are blocking requests from the stations

bestg01 St. Ghislain  Belgium Europe 35.233.40.54
fiham01 Hammina, Finland  Finland Europe 35.228.165.156
defra05 Frankfurt, Germany  Germany Europe 35.242.231.146
nleem01 Eemshaven  Netherlands Europe 35.204.95.134
gblon03 London  United Kingdom Europe 35.246.104.143

Checking against public available IP gelocation services they seems in USA.

Can you please confirm that those above are actually located as stated in the product ?

Environment

Release : 99.0

Component : CA APP SYNTHETIC MONITOR (WATCHMOUSE)

Resolution

These stations are running on Google Cloud Platform. 

The Europe locations match our listed locations

https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/?region=europe#region

As such the IP registration is to Google in Mountain View and most geolocation services will detect these are being active in US based on the SWIP (Share Whois Project) database. 

However the requests will actually physically come from the stated country.

Additional Information

Found discussion which contains a statement on aspects of this problem from a former GCP product manager

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/gce-discussion/ip$20address$20in$20europe/gce-discussion/RjzyHRBRujg/Fd21YlmOpzEJ