From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Tue Jan 7 18:47:39 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0435F1EF6C4 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2020 18:47:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from blaine.gmane.org (blaine.gmane.org [195.159.176.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47shFk1HMpz4T33 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2020 18:47:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iott6-000Pop-Vd for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2020 19:47:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Alexander Koeppe Subject: Re: Light GeoIP support dropped? Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 19:47:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20200106214637.GA2452@elch.exwg.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2 In-Reply-To: <20200106214637.GA2452@elch.exwg.net> Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47shFk1HMpz4T33 X-Spamd-Bar: ++++++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org has no SPF policy when checking 195.159.176.226) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [8.52 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[format_c@online.de,freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[online.de]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(1.00)[1.000,0]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(1.32)[ipnet: 195.159.0.0/16(3.99), asn: 2116(2.63), country: NO(-0.01)]; GREYLIST(0.00)[pass,meta]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(1.00)[1.000,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[format_c@online.de,freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:2116, ipnet:195.159.0.0/16, country:NO]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; FORGED_MUA_THUNDERBIRD_MSGID_UNKNOWN(2.50)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-Spam: Yes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 18:47:39 -0000 Am 06.01.20 um 22:46 schrieb Christoph Moench-Tegeder: > ## Alexander Koeppe (format_c@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&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