Light GeoIP support dropped?

Kevin Oberman rkoberman at gmail.com
Tue Jan 7 02:04:59 UTC 2020


On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:17 PM Alexander Koeppe <format_c at online.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since I've upgraded to FreeBSD 12, I don't find a package providing the
> lightweight geoip database API incl. GeoIP.h and libGeoIP.so.
>
> I only find `geoipupdate` which is the non-free variant of the API.
>
> Has the package been renamed?
>
> Thanks
>
>        - Alex


GeoIP and the GeoIP 1 database were discontinued early last year. They were
replaced by net/libmaxminddb and GeoIP 2 database. I have no idea if any
form of free data is available.


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