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Description of problem: Options geoip city needs package GeoIP-data which is in optional channel. if you follow bind knowledge base : https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01149/0/Using-the-GeoIP-Features-in-BIND-9.10.html you would see all the options used. There is strange location for this database with cities. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bind-9.9.4-36.el7.x86_64 GeoIP-data-1.5.0-11.el7.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. have a bind + package GeoIP 2. use following options: geoip-directory "/usr/share/GeoIP"; + acl "US" { geoip country US; geoip region CA; geoip city A; }; 3. it fails with error message: /etc/named.conf:56: no GeoIP database installed which can answer queries of type 'city' 4. look at files: [0 root@qeos-103 ~]# rpm -ql GeoIP|grep -i city /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCityv6.dat /usr/share/doc/GeoIP-1.5.0/fetch-geoipdata-city.pl ####### ####### which is strange ^, for the first view I would say that I have DB with cities. ####### 5. but I haven't db with cities: [0 root@qeos-103 ~]# ls -la /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat ls: cannot access /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat: No such file or directory 6. yum install GeoIP-data -y 7. ls -la /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 38 Sep 8 09:06 /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat -> /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity-initial.dat 8. Now option 'geoip city' works fine Actual results: users can be messed: A, Options 'geoip country' + 'region' works with base package GeoIP but for 'city' you need GeoIP-data. B, Package GeoIP shows(rpm -ql) /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat which is not on the disk. Expected results: document it or move GeoIP-data into base channel. Additional info:
Requirement for GeoIPCity, GeoIPCityv6, GeoIPASNum and GeoIPASNumv6 requires GeoIP-data package installed. There are symlinks pointing to non-existing file until GeoIP-data is installed. There is already well documented enabling of optional channel [1], but details about named configuration to choose correct database are not yet documented. When any ACL would contain geoip city XY or geoip asnum XY, option channel GeoIP-data has to be installed. Otherwise, basic usage is documented by ISC KB [2]. 1. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/392003 2. https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01149
Original GeoIP article[1] was updated was updated to include option channel on RHEL7. Separate article was created for RHEL8[2], not yet published. But not directly related to this bug. Closing this bug, no code changed would be done. 1. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3307231 2. https://access.redhat.com/articles/5127051