On 30-May-18 17:27, Victoria Risk 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 > ----- > Product Manager > Internet Systems Consortium > vi...@isc.org <mailto:vi...@isc.org> > > 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.
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...) I think that would be more useful (and less likely to complicate the lives of packagers) than bundling the database. And less work for you :-)
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