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- geoip for Debian
- ----------------
-
- The library comes with a free country database which does not contain all
- the information that can be accessible via the GeoIP API. To find other
- database editions, please visit http://www.maxmind.com/ (all of them except
- for the one included in the package require you to purchase a license from
- MaxMind)
-
- If you have obtained the license, you must install the geoip-bin package and
- copy the /etc/GeoIP.conf.default file to /etc/GeoIP.conf and edit it entering
- the licensing data.
-
-
- Updating databases
- ------------------
-
- If you need to update your database very frequency, then you can use the
- scripts in /usr/share/doc/libgeoip1/examples/ for this job. Each of them
- will update one database.
-
- Please note, that all those databases are not {DFSG-}free and that we can not
- provide support for them.
-
- There is also a known security hole with those scripts. Maxmind does not
- provide any way to verify the downloaded databases (md5sum, PGP, etc.), so
- they may be spoofed.
- For more information about this issue, please have a look at:
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546945
-
- -- Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:29:48 +0200
-