Bug#982012: ITP: dbip-lite-databases -- IP geolocation databases
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
* Package name : dbip-lite-databases
Version : 202102
Upstream Author : Eris Networks S.A.S
* URL : https://db-ip.com/
* License : CC-BY 4.0
Programming Lang: -
Description : IP geolocation databases
The DB-IP Lite databases are a set of free IP geolocation databases,
that can map an IPv4 or IPv6 address to a specific continent, country,
city, and ISP, with varying degrees of accuracy.
They are an alternative to the MaxMind GeoLite2 databases (in Debian as
"geoip-database"), newer releases for which are now non-free. They are
also a less accurate (but free) alternative to the commercially
available DB-IP and MaxMind GeoIP databases.
The databases will be offered in the MMDB file format, an open format
with a number of open source reader and writer implementations,
including libmaxminddb, bindings for a variety of programming
languages.
The data set is volatile, and upstream issues regular releases on a
monthly cadence.
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