Should we bundle the MaxMind GeoIP db?

[Victoria Risk]

> On May 30, 2018, at 3:15 PM, Rick Dicaire <kritek at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi, would this conflict with any similar pkg installed by an OS's pkg management system?

The package manager could choose whether or not to include the database - if they include it today, they wouldn’t include two copies, certainly. Even if they don’t include it today, they might not include it even if we bundle it.  So this would not necessarily have any impact on what a particular package offers.

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> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Victoria Risk <vicky at isc.org <mailto:vicky at isc.org>> wrote:
> Hello GeoIP users,
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> 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/ <https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/>
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> 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 <https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/issues/182>
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> 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).
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> Votes, comments welcome. 
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> Thank you,
> 
> Vicky
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Victoria Risk
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