I also agree with the second approach and to `Yansheng Wang` that users can use their own GeoIP database.
YuanSheng Wang <[email protected]> 于2020年8月5日周三 下午11:40写道： > Of course, the second way is better for APISIX. > > The `lua-geoip` is under Dual license, we need to confirm if we can use > this library. > > The users needs to download the GeoIP database by himself, Apache APISIX > can > not ship with the GeoIP data(under LGPL 2.1). > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:16 PM Li Ling(Lien) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > rencently I am thinking about have Geo routing in APISIX， > > scenario： > > 1、I want route user‘s request from country request intoto different > > upstream host. > > 2、When users from outside China redirect to international > homepage(many > > video sites like youku.com they ban users from outside china). > > > > > > here is two solution I digged into: > > > > 1、intergrate nginx module https://github.com/leev/ngx_http_geoip2_module > > and > > do variable matching. > > disadvantage: we need calculate the geo data from ip info for every > > request,which is so inefficient. > > > > > > 2、https://luarocks.org/modules/agladysh/lua-geoip > > intergrate this lua module into lua-resty-radixtree, when geo_ip_* > > parameter is set in the routes, we calculate the ip country info from > geoip > > library.so that it wont calculate the geo data for each request. > > > > > -- > > *MembPhis* > My GitHub: https://github.com/membphis > Apache APISIX: https://github.com/apache/incubator-apisix > -- Thanks, Janko
