Roger Dingledine schrieb: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:21:56PM +0100, Olaf Selke wrote: >>> The free >>> maxmind one is intentionally crippled, which makes me not so optimistic >>> about its future. >> the free of charge MaxMind's db works perfectly to match the country. >> Determining state/region, city, US postal code, and so on requires the >> non crippled version. > > Really? I am under the impression that they have four databases: 1) > crippled (gpl) country db, 2) non-crippled (commercial) country db, 3) > crippled city db, 4) non-crippled city db.
here's a comparison between the free of charge (gpl) GeoLite Country and the commercial GeoIP Country version http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecountry Accuracy seems to be 0,3% different and update interval differs. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to convince tor developers to switch over to MaxMind's product. My intention only has been to understand the bridge relay startup errors. I was mistaken about the geoip db format even I rtfm. regards Olaf *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
