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