Open atoomic opened 3 years ago
Sorry, I haven't used this module or service in years. It's quite possible the data is offline permanently.
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.
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.
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.
How often that tor database is updated?
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.
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.
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