Re: Issue with Fedora GeoIP service

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 04:49:15PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>  On 06/12/2019 16:41, Martin Kolman wrote:
>  > On Fri, 2019-12-06 at 08:38 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
>  > 
>  > > I also installed the Fedora 31 GeoIP packages and ran the geoipupdate,
>  > > and that DB has the correct info.
>  >
>  > IIRC the infra team mentioned some issues with the new geoip database
>  > being incompatible with how the service is currently implemented,
>  > resulting in being stuck with an outdated database until this is resolved.
>  
>  Sounds like it maybe doesn't have support for GeoLite2 and is using the
>  old MaxMind GeoLite Legacy databases which haven't been updated since
>  the start of this year. 
Yes, that is exactly the case. 

We recently looked at this to see if we could retire the service, but it
looks like it's still needed, so we need to figure out how to get cycles
to update it. 

If someone wants to work on this, let us know!

kevin