On 08.12.2020 14:44, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 02:33:01PM +0100, Walter H. wrote:
can someone explain, why the two packages - GeoIP - geoipupdate are needed when installing the bind-utils package?
The bind-utils package requires 'libGeoIP.so.1()(64bit)', which is provided by the GeoIP package. The GeoIP package requires 'geoipupdate', which is provided by the geoipupdate package.
% rpm -q --requires bind-utils|grep GeoIP libGeoIP.so.1()(64bit) % rpm -q --requires GeoIP | grep geoipupdate geoipupdate
GeoIP provides a C library and a lookup tool to look up countries from an IP address. The bind-utils executables are all linked against libGeoIP.so.1, so I assume they use some functionality from that library.
/usr/bin/geoipupdate is a tool to update the data files in the GeoIP package.
Yes, then the interesting question, how can I make use of these GeoIP-features when doing these e.g.
nslookup 200:470:17:55::1 nslookup 222.10.10.1 nslookup www.centos.org host www.centos.org
Thanks, Walter