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bricas / geo-ipfree

Look up the country of an IPv4 address
http://metacpan.org/release/Geo-IPfree
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software77 websites are not reachable #2

Open atoomic opened 3 years ago

atoomic commented 3 years ago

http://webnet77.com/ and http://software77.net/geo-ip/ where the files were available seems not available. From Reddit it appears to happen a month ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/ngdt7r/any_idea_what_happened_to_software77net/

Any idea if this is temporary? Where to download updated databases?

thanks for any input nicolas

bricas commented 3 years ago

Sorry, I haven't used this module or service in years. It's quite possible the data is offline permanently.

atoomic commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your reply, I mainly opened this case to hopefully get some feedbacks and alternate solutions from the community.

Right now I'm considering using the IP2Location™ LITE / Free IP Geolocation Database from MaxMind but would like to know if one organization keep providing these databases.

atoomic commented 2 years ago

We should note that webnet77 is dead, and provide a tool to convert the Free MaxMind database to use with this package. I got some pending work to perform such a task, but due to license we would not be able to distribute it.

japharl commented 2 years ago

There is an option. In tor's source code, there is the tor-geoip database (located in the tor source code directory as /tor/src/config/geoip and /tor/src/config/geoip6 ), which is based upon https://location.ipfire.org, but in (nearly) the same format from software77.net format. cc-by-sa 4.0 license.

atoomic commented 2 years ago

How often that tor database is updated?

japharl commented 2 years ago

It depends (from my looking at it). I think location.ipfire.org updates daily in a binary format, and the tor extract of that database is weekly or monthly.

japharl commented 2 years ago

The reason why I'm not using location.ipfire.org's apis directly (ie the location tool they provide), is that they seem to have distributions / source code for specific versions of debian (which hasn't been updated in a while). https://location.ipfire.org/databases/1/ is the location of the most recent databases.