Re: how to keep geoip database uptodate
On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 07:14:47PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> How do I keep geoip database up to date on Debian stable? Currently, I
> am not able to get information on some IP addresses. For example,
>
> % geoiplookup 45.229.2.42
> GeoIP Country Edition: IP Address not found
>
> I tried geoipupdate, but it is looking for a license.
>
> % geoipupdate -v
> geoipupdate 2.3.1
> Can't open license file /etc/GeoIP.conf
> % ls -al /etc/GeoIP.conf
> ls: cannot access '/etc/GeoIP.conf': No such file or directory
>
> % dpkg -l \*geoip\* | grep ^ii
> ii geoip-bin 1.6.9-4 amd64 IP lookup command line
> tools that use the GeoIP library
> ii geoip-database 20170512-1 all IP lookup command line
> tools that use the GeoIP library (country database)
> ii geoipupdate 2.3.1-1 amd64 MaxMind GeoIP/GeoIP2
> database updates
> ii libgeoip1:amd64 1.6.9-4 amd64 non-DNS IP-to-country
> resolver library
>
> % cat /etc/debian_version
> 9.4
>
>
Hello,
you could download the latest file manually.
>From here:
http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
- backup your old GeoIP.dat
- move the new version into /usr/share/GeoIP.dat
-H
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Henning Follmann | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com
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