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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30-May-18 17:27, Victoria Risk
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Hello GeoIP users,
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<div class="">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). <a
href="https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/" class=""
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<div class="">We have an issue open in the BIND gitlab to update
our Geo-IP support to use the new database api. <a
href="https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/issues/182"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/issues/182</a></div>
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<div class="">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).<br
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<div class="">Votes, comments welcome. </div>
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<div class="">Thank you,</div>
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I use GeoIP with webservers, but not with BIND. I run a cron job
that pulls the Maxmind updates roughly monthly. IP address
allocations change a bit more frequently than twice a year.<br>
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Rather than bundling the database, you might want to bundle a script
to automate the update process... preferably one that you don't have
to maintain. (Stick to your core competency...)<br>
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I think that would be more useful (and less likely to complicate the
lives of packagers) than bundling the database.<br>
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And less work for you :-)<br>
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