Maxmind will require an account and license key to use GeoLite2 DBs

NogBadTheBad

@laser22 said in Maxmind will require an account and license key to use GeoLite2 DBs:

I think maxmind owes the opensource community a public explanation as to why private non commercial users can no longer use this database.

Who says non commercial users can’t, I registered with my gmail email address and n/a for a company name.

Maybe they haven’t thought who uses the database.

jdeloach

@NogBadTheBad said in Maxmind will require an account and license key to use GeoLite2 DBs:

@laser22 said in Maxmind will require an account and license key to use GeoLite2 DBs:

Who says non commercial users can’t, I registered with my gmail email address and n/a for a company name.

Maybe they haven’t thought who uses the database.

Maybe you just got lucky. I tried signing up using similar information that you said you used but received message that they could not provide me an account.

Will have to wait and see if @BBcan177 works some kind of deal with them that lets users of pfBlockerNG sign up if we really need an account.

bmeeks

Just an FYI. This change by Maxmind will also kill the GeoIP feature in the Suricata package. It depends on the GeoLite2 databases.

If you are using GeoIP rules in Suricata, you will need to create your own DB update process using the instructions on the Maxmind link at the top of this thread. The automatically installed Suricata cron task will no longer work.

johnpoz

So got my account created with my gmail, just used home for company and education and internet security as uses..

chrcoluk

I just registered with my personal domain, and got the welcome to maxmind email.

For use I put "other" and for company I put home.

This is concerning though.

"We currently do not have a billing location for you. Please provide one in Account Information to ensure continued access to your service."

dotdash

Happy New Years Eve! Just tried an install of pfBlocker NG, and yup the maxmind download now bombs out due to them removing access. Is the path forward going to be a place to enter a maxmind account in the settings? Maybe go back to countryipblocks.net or one of the other geo lists?

johnpoz

I would assume @BBcan177 at some point will fix this up one way or the other.. What his schedule is like, with the holidays and since this just went live, etc.. prob going to take him a bit to figure out how best to do it, etc. etc..

jimp

There are PRs pending for this, should be merged soon after they are reviewed.

https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/734
https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/738

dotdash

Awesome. Thanks jimp for the info, and thanks to BBcan177 for being on top of this as usual.

sengork

The update is live now.