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Alternative IP resolution services #189

Closed robwent closed 5 years ago

robwent commented 6 years ago

I was looking into how ip addresses are resolved when looking at the gdpr issue.

I see that ip-api.com is being used but has limits on the api (#175).

I have recently been using some marketing automation software which has some different options for this (https://github.com/mautic).

The standard option downloads a copy of maxmind geolite2 so you can perform unlimited lookups locally. It has a cron command to download a fresh copy of the db which is set to about once a month (Usually, I don't think they update it any more frequently than that anyway). https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

These are the options that are available by default:

Freegeoip.net Geobytes GeoIPs IP2Location Local Bin File IP2Location Web Service IPInfoDB MaxMind - Country Geolocation MaxMind - GeoIP2 Precision MaxMind - GeoLite2 City Download MaxMind - Insights (formerly Omni] Telize

This is just really for reference incase you were still looking into alternative options. Geolite2 is also used by a firewall extension I use on a lot of websites.

acelaya commented 6 years ago

Anything that helps improving the service is more than welcome :)

I will take a look at it. Thanks!

acelaya commented 5 years ago

Hey @robwent I have managed to integrate GeoLite2 in shlink and it will be included in v1.14. It is really cool and I think it is going to be a great improvement :-)

The system still falls back to the old service in case the IP is not found in GeoLite.

robwent commented 5 years ago

Awesome, good work!