your thoughts on a particualar ipfw action.

Ian Smith smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Fri Aug 12 09:48:27 UTC 2016


On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:49:36 +1000, grenville armitage wrote:
 > On 08/12/2016 14:56, Julian Elischer wrote:
 > > On 11/08/2016 9:02 AM, Dr. Rolf Jansen wrote:
 > >>
 >      [...]
 > >>
 > >> I needed to change the name of the geoip tool, because GeoIP® is a
 > registered trademark of MaxMind, Inc., see www.maxmind.com. The name of the
 > tool is now 'ipup' = abbreviated form of  IP geo location table generation
 > and look- UP , that is without the boring middle part :-D

 > > Hmm I'd have gone for geotable. ipup sounds like a young dog produced by
 > > Apple.
 > > (wonder if one can change the name of a port)

:)  The Sony Aibo had the robotic dog genre pretty well covered.

 > +1 FWIW.

Portname is sysutils/ipdbtools which sounds ok, so it's only one program 
could be renamed (again).  The port is young enough that it wouldn't be 
likely to inconvenience anybody much - except Rolf! - at this stage.

cheers, Ian


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