From 26164efa00e0b331df63862e949b789de0881dd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Weinberger Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 12:35:42 +0000 Subject: Make the GeoIP and geoipupdate descriptions reflect reality The difference is no longer paid vs. unpaid. There are free versions of the GeoIP2 databases, and they are preferred when supported. --- net/GeoIP/pkg-descr | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/GeoIP') diff --git a/net/GeoIP/pkg-descr b/net/GeoIP/pkg-descr index 934068127168..6b1e8d33eac2 100644 --- a/net/GeoIP/pkg-descr +++ b/net/GeoIP/pkg-descr @@ -1,14 +1,15 @@ GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any -IP address or hostname originates from. It uses a file based database -that is accurate as of March 2002. This database simply contains IP blocks -as keys, and countries as values. This database should be more complete and -accurate than using reverse DNS lookups. +IP address or hostname originates from. This library supports the legacy +GeoIP database. Although it is kept up-to-date, the non-legacy database +(net/libmaxminddb) is preferable when supported. This module can be used to automatically select the geographically closest mirror, to analyze your web server logs to determine the countries of your visitors, for credit card fraud detection, and for software export controls. This port includes a helper script, geoipupdate.sh, to help you keep the -library up-to-date. +library up-to-date. The helper script will only update the legacy +database. To update GeoIP2 databases, install the geoipupdate port from +net/geoipupdate. WWW: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy -- cgit v1.2.3