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Description of problem: As of April 1, 2018, the legacy GeoLite (free) databases are no longer being updated by MaxMind: https://blog.maxmind.com/2018/01/02/discontinuation-of-the-geolite-legacy-databases/ The current symptom of this deprecation is the following error message when attempting to run "geoipupdate": "Received Error -21 (Sanity check database_info string failed) when attempting to update GeoIP Database" The secondary symptom will be increasing inaccuracy until January 2019, at which point the legacy (1.x) free databases will be taken offline entirely. Version 2 free databases are still available and supported (as are paid 1.x databases, for now). GeoIP2 was released in October of 2013. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [~]# yum list installed | grep -i geoip GeoIP.x86_64 1.5.0-11.el7 @base GeoIP-devel.x86_64 1.5.0-11.el7 @cloudlinux-x86_64-server-7 GeoIP-update.noarch 1.5.0-11.el7 @cloudlinux-x86_64-server-7 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. [~]# geoipupdate -v Actual results: Opened License file /etc/GeoIP.conf Read in license key 000000000000 number of product ids 2 Connecting to MaxMind GeoIP server via Host or Proxy Server: updates.maxmind.com:80 sending request GET /app/update_getfilename?product_id=506 HTTP/1.0 Host: updates.maxmind.com database product id 506 database file name /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCountry.dat /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCountry.dat can't be opened, proceeding to download database MD5 sum of database /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCountry.dat is 0000000000000000000000000000000 Connecting to MaxMind GeoIP Update server sending request GET /app/update_getipaddr HTTP/1.0 Host: updates.maxmind.com client ip address: 209.133.207.180 md5sum of ip address and license key is 4c3e8e3aa9b22a32962323d4a172bf81 sending request GET /app/update_secure?db_md5=0000000000000000000000000000000&challenge_md5=4c3e8e3aa9b22a32962323d4a172bf81&user_id=999999&edition_id=506 HTTP/1.0 Host: updates.maxmind.com Downloading gzipped GeoIP Database... Done Updating /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCountry.dat Saving gzip file to /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCountry.dat.gz ... download data to a gz file named /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCountry.dat.gz Done Uncompressing gzip file ... Done Performing sanity checks ... Database type is 1 database_info FAIL null Received Error -21 (Sanity check database_info string failed) when attempting to update GeoIP Database Connecting to MaxMind GeoIP server via Host or Proxy Server: updates.maxmind.com:80 sending request GET /app/update_getfilename?product_id=533 HTTP/1.0 Host: updates.maxmind.com database product id 533 database file name /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat can't be opened, proceeding to download database MD5 sum of database /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat is 0000000000000000000000000000000 md5sum of ip address and license key is 4c3e8e3aa9b22a32962323d4a172bf81 sending request GET /app/update_secure?db_md5=0000000000000000000000000000000&challenge_md5=4c3e8e3aa9b22a32962323d4a172bf81&user_id=999999&edition_id=533 HTTP/1.0 Host: updates.maxmind.com Downloading gzipped GeoIP Database... Done Updating /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat Saving gzip file to /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz ... download data to a gz file named /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz Done Uncompressing gzip file ... Done Performing sanity checks ... Database type is 1 database_info FAIL null Received Error -21 (Sanity check database_info string failed) when attempting to update GeoIP Database Expected results: Success Additional info:
Hi Rodrigo, yes we know about this issue. Right now this error -21 is actually a problem of MaxMind returning a message with a little bit different text. For the free user ID, it used to return 'Invalid UserID', now it returns 'Invalid user ID'. When this happens, geoipupdate doesn't recognize the return message and believes that the tar.gz file containing the database was downloaded. But that doesn't happen of course. geoipupdate should work the same for paid legacy databases but that is not the right solution. I would like to add libmaxminddb and geoipupdate in the future release so that users are able to use GeoLite2 databases.
Hello Michal, This will be amazing, thank you!
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Can we then please have a fix for the returned error (Invalid user ID)? And maybe have /etc/cron.weekly/geoipupdate from GeoIP-update no longer active by default, so that maybe for existing installations with that package it won't try to update anymore or something?