Should we bundle the MaxMind GeoIP db?

Rick Dicaire kritek at gmail.com
Wed May 30 22:15:28 UTC 2018


Hi, would this conflict with any similar pkg installed by an OS's pkg
management system?

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Victoria Risk <vicky at isc.org> wrote:

> Hello GeoIP users,
>
> We are aware that Maxmind is discontinuing their older free GeoLite
> location database and replacing it with a new database with a new format
> (GeoLite2). https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/
>
> We have an issue open in the BIND gitlab to update our Geo-IP support to
> use the new database api.  https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-
> projects/bind9/issues/182
>
> The question is, would it be useful if we included the GeoLite2 database
> with the BIND distribution? Since we update at least twice a year, we could
> keep it fairly well up to date, and it would save users having to go get
> and update the db themselves. It would add about 1.5MB to
> the BIND distribution (depending on whether we use the country or city
> level).
>
> Votes, comments welcome.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Vicky
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> Internet Systems Consortium
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