| Subject: | Geo::IPfree country data is outdated and incorrect |
| Date: | Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:13:41 +0200 |
| To: | bugs-Geo-IPfree [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Damyan Ivanov <dmn [...] debian.org> |
Hi,
We got the following bug report about Geo-IPfree in the Debian bug
tracker. It would be nice if you can comment on it.
The ifull bug log and the attachments it talks about are at
http://bugs.debian.org/505736
Brian Cassidy also offered to take ofer the maintenance of Geo-IPfree
and take care to update its database. Please say if this is fine with
you.
Thank you,
Damyan
Debian Perl Group
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Subject: Bug#505736: Geo::IPfree country data is outdated and incorrect
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:05:36 +0100
From: Claus Herwig <c.herwig@checon.de>
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Package: libgeo-ipfree-perl
Version: 0.2-6
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The country data file provided with Geo::IPfree
/usr/share/perl5/Geo/ipscountry.dat
is extremly outdated and incorrect.
So please include an uptodate country data file.
Attached you'll find three files:
- webgeo2ipct.pl converts an freely available uptodate GPL'ed country
database to Geo::IPfree's ipscountry.dat.
You can get the required source database file anytime from
http://software77.net/cgi-bin/ip-country/geo-ip.pl
- README.database is the licence file that comes with this source database
- ipscountry.dat is an uptodate generated file as of 14/11/2008
My suggestion would be to replace the file in /usr/share/perl5/Geo with
the uptodate version and provide the old version together with the
conversion script and licence file in
/usr/share/doc/libgeo-ipfree-perl/examples.
I consider this a bug and not a wishlist item because
- packaged ipscountry.dat (27/3/2003) is over five years old and contains
approx. 30'000 records compared to an uptodate file with about 90'000
records.
- For roughly 30% of all allocated IPv4 address ranges in the world the
allocation was changed in the last five years.
- libgeo-ipfree-perl is suggested by packages like awstats. If you use it
for logfile analysis you get seriously wrong data. For example: After
doing some tests for myself I'd estimate Geo::IPfree gets it wrong for
about 50-80% of web traffic in Western Europe. This IMHO renders the
package quite useless in its current state.
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