Re: GeoIP free databases and Geo::IP

[MI <mi.lists.debian@alma.ch>]

I have the same problem. For my needs, the best solution I found turns 
out to be the workaround you suggested using https://freegeoip.app.

The alternative seems to be something like

    apt install geoipupdate mmdb-bin

    # use the free license in GeoIP.conf:
    cp /usr/share/doc/geoipupdate/examples/GeoIP.conf.default 
/etc/GeoIP.conf

    geoipupdate

    # update every Tuesday
   echo "04 04 * * 2 root /usr/bin/geoipupdate" >> /etc/crontab

Then you have mmdblookup, which outputs some clumsy pseudo-json that 
needs to be parsed.

So thank you for the simple workaround you suggested :

>     wget -qO - https://freegeoip.app/csv/$IP | awk -F, '{print $3}'
So

> Is there something better?
For my use case (I only need about a dozen lookups per day), that's the 
best I could find


MI