Mailing List Archive: dbip-country-lite database

dbip-country-lite database

Nov 15, 2020, 10:27 AM

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Is anyone else using this database?

I’ve been using it with xt_geoip and Mimedefang and Plugin::URILocalBL to block countries since Maxmind retired support for GeoIP on RHEL.

But I keep running into cases where parts of the database are very obviously wrong. It’s showing about 50% of 183.128.0.0-183.170.255.255 as being in the US. But APNIC says 183.128.0.0/11 is CHINANET.

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dominic at timedicer

Nov 15, 2020, 10:48 AM

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On Sun, 15 Nov 2020, 18:27 Philip Prindeville, <
philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com> wrote:

> Is anyone else using this database?
>
> I’ve been using it with xt_geoip and Mimedefang and Plugin::URILocalBL to
> block countries since Maxmind retired support for GeoIP on RHEL.
>
> But I keep running into cases where parts of the database are very
> obviously wrong. It’s showing about 50% of 183.128.0.0-183.170.255.255 as
> being in the US. But APNIC says 183.128.0.0/11 is CHINANET.
>

Can you not use GeoIP2?

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philipp_subx at redfish-solutions

Nov 19, 2020, 11:24 PM

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> On Nov 15, 2020, at 11:48 AM, Dominic Raferd <dominic@timedicer.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2020, 18:27 Philip Prindeville, <philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> Is anyone else using this database?
>
> I’ve been using it with xt_geoip and Mimedefang and Plugin::URILocalBL to block countries since Maxmind retired support for GeoIP on RHEL.
>
> But I keep running into cases where parts of the database are very obviously wrong. It’s showing about 50% of 183.128.0.0-183.170.255.255 as being in the US. But APNIC says 183.128.0.0/11 is CHINANET.
>
> Can you not use GeoIP2?

The licensing has changed.

Also, a lot of other packages (like xtables-addons) have pivoted away from the MaxMind database.

-Philip