Hi Victoria, On Wed, 30 May 2018, Victoria Risk wrote:
... 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.
The increase in sizes of the distributions would be of no concern to me. I would hope to see both IPv4 and IPv6 data as well as the ASN data, without which it would be of no use to me. At present I use the Debian package, which updates much more often than twice yearly. I keep no data on the volumes of changes, but the file timestamps today tell me that the changes are infrequent so I guess I'd be relaxed about that: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4638365 Mar 24 10:10 GeoIPASNum.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20539238 Mar 27 13:05 GeoLiteCity.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1242574 Mar 27 13:17 GeoIP.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21662641 May 1 21:14 GeoLiteCityv6.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2297267 May 1 21:23 GeoIPv6.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5564550 May 5 11:10 GeoIPASNumv6.dat I use the database to screen incoming mail connections to limit abuse. Connections are blocked or permitted by a pure Perl homebrew Sendmail milter based on the Country and/or ASN as identified by a GeoIP lookup on the connecting IP. Lookup failures in the ASNUM edition are much more common than in the country and the city 'rev. 1' editions, and it seems much more common since March this year. I do keep stats on those, although they're not very illuminating. If they'd be of any interest you'd be very welcome to have them. HTH -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
