Re: Light GeoIP support dropped?
Alexander Koeppe wrote on 2020/01/07 19:47: Am 06.01.20 um 22:46 schrieb Christoph Moench-Tegeder: ## Alexander Koeppe (forma...@online.de): since I've upgraded to FreeBSD 12, I don't find a package providing the lightweight geoip database API incl. GeoIP.h and libGeoIP.so. The so-called "legacy" database format used by libGeoIP has been discontinued by MaxMind, and is only available for paying customers: https://blog.maxmind.com/2018/01/02/discontinuation-of-the-geolite-legacy-databases/ For that reason, net/GeoIP has been removed quite some time ago: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision=493168 And the free (as in no payment required) GeoLite2 databases have seen some licensing/handling changes, too: https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/ Regards, Christoph Thanks for the hints. All the information is very clearing. This deprecation has completely slipped through for me. I'll dig into the new GeoLite2 approach and see what's the impact for my software project. Thanks to all and all others who have responded. Free registration and license key works without any problem. But if your software accessed DB or CSV files directly then it will not work anymore because format of database was changed from one flat table to few tables with relations. If your SW uses some library do access the DB then it may work with updated dependency. My usecase was very simple shellscript so I was able to convert it to new CSV files. They can be converted to the old format if somebody need it. Kind regards Miroslav Lachman ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Light GeoIP support dropped?
Am 06.01.20 um 22:46 schrieb Christoph Moench-Tegeder: ## Alexander Koeppe (forma...@online.de): since I've upgraded to FreeBSD 12, I don't find a package providing the lightweight geoip database API incl. GeoIP.h and libGeoIP.so. The so-called "legacy" database format used by libGeoIP has been discontinued by MaxMind, and is only available for paying customers: https://blog.maxmind.com/2018/01/02/discontinuation-of-the-geolite-legacy-databases/ For that reason, net/GeoIP has been removed quite some time ago: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision=493168 And the free (as in no payment required) GeoLite2 databases have seen some licensing/handling changes, too: https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/ Regards, Christoph Thanks for the hints. All the information is very clearing. This deprecation has completely slipped through for me. I'll dig into the new GeoLite2 approach and see what's the impact for my software project. Thanks to all and all others who have responded. - Alex ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Light GeoIP support dropped?
On 1/6/20 6:04 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:17 PM Alexander Koeppe wrote:
Hi,
since I've upgraded to FreeBSD 12, I don't find a package providing the
lightweight geoip database API incl. GeoIP.h and libGeoIP.so.
I only find `geoipupdate` which is the non-free variant of the API.
Has the package been renamed?
Thanks
- Alex
GeoIP and the GeoIP 1 database were discontinued early last year. They were
replaced by net/libmaxminddb and GeoIP 2 database. I have no idea if any
form of free data is available.
there is a partial alternative in ports...
https://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=ipdbtools=go=10=name=match=excludedeleted=1=caseinsensitive
It uses the official national registrations for country enumeration,
and can generate firewall tables directly.
Here's the cron script I use to generate a table in ipfw that only
allows australian and US addresses (for example):
#!/bin/sh
ALLOWFILE=/root/AU+USA-GEOIPS.ipfw
MAILTABLE=20
ALT_MAILTABLE=21
AU_VAL=1
US_VAL=10200
#fetch latest geo-ip ranges and set AU and USA into table ${MAILTABLE}
ipdb-update.sh
ipup -t AU=${AU_VAL}:US=${US_VAL} -n ${ALT_MAILTABLE} > ${ALLOWFILE}
ipfw table ${ALT_MAILTABLE} flush
ipfw -q -f ${ALLOWFILE}
ipfw table ${MAILTABLE} swap ${ALT_MAILTABLE}
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Re: Light GeoIP support dropped?
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:17 PM Alexander Koeppe wrote: > Hi, > > since I've upgraded to FreeBSD 12, I don't find a package providing the > lightweight geoip database API incl. GeoIP.h and libGeoIP.so. > > I only find `geoipupdate` which is the non-free variant of the API. > > Has the package been renamed? > > Thanks > >- Alex GeoIP and the GeoIP 1 database were discontinued early last year. They were replaced by net/libmaxminddb and GeoIP 2 database. I have no idea if any form of free data is available. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Light GeoIP support dropped?
## Alexander Koeppe (forma...@online.de): > since I've upgraded to FreeBSD 12, I don't find a package providing > the lightweight geoip database API incl. GeoIP.h and libGeoIP.so. The so-called "legacy" database format used by libGeoIP has been discontinued by MaxMind, and is only available for paying customers: https://blog.maxmind.com/2018/01/02/discontinuation-of-the-geolite-legacy-databases/ For that reason, net/GeoIP has been removed quite some time ago: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision=493168 And the free (as in no payment required) GeoLite2 databases have seen some licensing/handling changes, too: https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/ Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Light GeoIP support dropped?
Alexander, Unfortunately maxmind have changed their rules and as per AdamW's notification in the geoipupdate message for version 4.1.5_1, https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/net/geoipupdate/files/pkg-message.in?view=markup advises to go to https://www.maxmind.com/en/geolite2/signup to create an account, then you will need to go to (I think it was) "My Licence" where you provide a key description (you enter text) and then you will need to generate a key. Adam advises to go to https://www.maxmind.com/en/accounts/155743/license-key for the licence, but that is actually his account number (155743), which I would suggest is inappropriate. (Adam!) ;) I have walked through the steps, and the account setup involves providing you email address, to which additional details are sent for the account creation process. Once done, you acquire the key. Once you login to your account, you will notice a number at the end of the url, after accounts/ (see above) that is your account information that you plug into your geoipupdate.conf file, and you'll need your licence key as well. Its a little convoluted, but it also provides a config file segment which you can conveniently cut/paste. Regards, Dewayne. PS our version of geoipupdate doesn't provide a version number, but the current version is 4.1.5_1, anything after 3.1.1 should work as described, if earlier, the account creation process will advise. So it continues to work. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Light GeoIP support dropped?
Hi Ed, thanks for your answer. Am 06.01.20 um 22:23 schrieb Ed Maste: On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 16:17, Alexander Koeppe wrote: It appears both free and paid access is available with API v2. Do you know how to use the v2 API? Do you know of any documentation? Thanks - Alex ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Light GeoIP support dropped?
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 16:17, Alexander Koeppe wrote: > > Hi, > > since I've upgraded to FreeBSD 12, I don't find a package providing the > lightweight geoip database API incl. GeoIP.h and libGeoIP.so. > > I only find `geoipupdate` which is the non-free variant of the API. Looking at ports history it seems the database it relied on is no longer available. It appears both free and paid access is available with API v2. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Light GeoIP support dropped?
Hi, since I've upgraded to FreeBSD 12, I don't find a package providing the lightweight geoip database API incl. GeoIP.h and libGeoIP.so. I only find `geoipupdate` which is the non-free variant of the API. Has the package been renamed? Thanks - Alex ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
