Re: [WebDNA] Re: anyone get MaxMind geolite city working?

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2012


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 108669
interpreted = N
texte = This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040301090100070404040003 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes the tables should be updated regularly. The free version is updated monthly. But for our purpose 96% or so is good enough for us and we won't update that often. I did find with my testing that some mobile IP address are causing problems. One, some folks access sites via mobile and the IP is tied to other locations and two, some mobile IPs are not in the MaxMind tables. Anyway, I got a couple of requests and will post my code and link to converted tables later today. The raw tables are large 100 megs+ so editing the tables requires editors that can handle large files (I use VIM). Tom Duke wrote: > Olin, > > Hi - I was using a [TCPConnect] api call to these guys for one client: > > http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php > > it went down for a while though and caused problems so I disabled it. > I thought of trying to locally host the databases - but do they not > need to be updated regularly? > > - Tom > > > --------------------------------------------------------- This message > is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To > unsubscribe, E-mail to: archives: > http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us Bug Reporting: > support@webdna.us --------------040301090100070404040003 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes the tables should be updated regularly. The free version is updated monthly. But for our purpose 96% or so is good enough for us and we won't update that often.

I did find with my testing that some mobile IP address are causing problems. One, some folks access sites via mobile and the IP is tied to other locations and two, some mobile IPs are not in the MaxMind tables.

Anyway, I got a couple of requests and will post my code and link to converted tables later today. The raw tables are large 100 megs+ so editing the tables requires editors that can handle large files (I use VIM).

Tom Duke wrote:
Olin,

Hi - I was using a [TCPConnect] api call to these guys for one client:

    http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php

it went down for a while though and caused problems so I disabled it.   I thought of trying to locally host the databases - but do they not need to be updated regularly?

- Tom


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  1. [WebDNA] anyone get MaxMind geolite city working? (Olin Lagon 2012)
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040301090100070404040003 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes the tables should be updated regularly. The free version is updated monthly. But for our purpose 96% or so is good enough for us and we won't update that often. I did find with my testing that some mobile IP address are causing problems. One, some folks access sites via mobile and the IP is tied to other locations and two, some mobile IPs are not in the MaxMind tables. Anyway, I got a couple of requests and will post my code and link to converted tables later today. The raw tables are large 100 megs+ so editing the tables requires editors that can handle large files (I use VIM). Tom Duke wrote: > Olin, > > Hi - I was using a [tcpconnect] api call to these guys for one client: > > http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php > > it went down for a while though and caused problems so I disabled it. > I thought of trying to locally host the databases - but do they not > need to be updated regularly? > > - Tom > > > --------------------------------------------------------- This message > is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To > unsubscribe, E-mail to: archives: > http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us Bug Reporting: > support@webdna.us --------------040301090100070404040003 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yes the tables should be updated regularly. The free version is updated monthly. But for our purpose 96% or so is good enough for us and we won't update that often.

I did find with my testing that some mobile IP address are causing problems. One, some folks access sites via mobile and the IP is tied to other locations and two, some mobile IPs are not in the MaxMind tables.

Anyway, I got a couple of requests and will post my code and link to converted tables later today. The raw tables are large 100 megs+ so editing the tables requires editors that can handle large files (I use VIM).

Tom Duke wrote:
Olin,

Hi - I was using a [tcpconnect] api call to these guys for one client:

    http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php

it went down for a while though and caused problems so I disabled it.   I thought of trying to locally host the databases - but do they not need to be updated regularly?

- Tom


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