On 03/25/2013 08:03 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
On 03/25/2013 07:44 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Right, so how does netsniff-ng then not depend on geoip-database if you need
to have the database to run it?
Yep, so I tried to say that with my headline:
The bug is that 'netsniff-ng does not depend on package "geoip-database"'.
Makes sense! I thought the other way round. :-)
Last time, I had a look at geoip-database, it's s simple shell script that
downloads these databases through wget, nothing more.
"geoip-database" is a "data-only"-package ( /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat ),
the package you might think of is "geoip-database-contrib".
So you might want to
file a bug against the geoip-database package for inclusion of GeoLite City
Good suggestion! Done with Bug#703915.
Cool, thanks! Actually, what would also be good regarding GeoIP databases in
that package might be to have an automatic updater in the background that could
be installed *if the user wishes* which automatically updates the databases on
the system to prevent a drift of measurement data over time into
false/deprecated
values. Maybe scheduled through a cronjob or so, but the time of update would
need to be randomized somehow, not that all systems ask maxmind servers at once.
I think a lot of tools use libGeoIP and could benefit from that. Probably most
users just update once (when installing this packet) and that's it.
You can do things like ...
astraceroute -u
... and all needed databases will be automatically updated. So we don't strictly
depend on this script.
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