Light GeoIP support dropped?

[Julian Elischer]

On 1/6/20 6:04 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 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.

there is a partial alternative in ports...

https://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=ipdbtools&search=go&num=10&stype=name&method=match&deleted=excludedeleted&start=1&casesensitivity=caseinsensitive

It uses the official national registrations for country enumeration, 
and can generate firewall tables directly.

Here's the cron script I use to generate a table in ipfw that only 
allows australian and US addresses (for example):


#!/bin/sh
ALLOWFILE=/root/AU+USA-GEOIPS.ipfw
MAILTABLE=20
ALT_MAILTABLE=21
AU_VAL=10000
US_VAL=10200

#fetch latest geo-ip ranges and set AU and USA into table ${MAILTABLE}
ipdb-update.sh
ipup -t AU=${AU_VAL}:US=${US_VAL} -n ${ALT_MAILTABLE} > ${ALLOWFILE}
ipfw table ${ALT_MAILTABLE} flush
ipfw -q -f ${ALLOWFILE}
ipfw table ${MAILTABLE} swap ${ALT_MAILTABLE}

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