On 12/9/20 1:28 AM, Walter H. wrote: > On 08.12.2020 15:12, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 02:54:03PM +0100, Walter H. wrote: >>> 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 >> Looking at the source, it looks like the geoip-related functions are >> only called in the 'named' code and the libdns library. I don't see >> any features in dig, host or nslookup for looking up countries based >> on IP. However, the GeoIP package has a 'geoiplookup' command that >> looks up a country from an IP. >> > wouldn't it be a good idea to split this, so that 'bind-utils' has no > dependency of neither GeoIP nor geoipupdate, > like it is in CentOS 6? > > (on systems where the bind-utils are used, mostly no GeoIP is used - DNS > vs. Web) > > Maybe .. but we don't design things .. we build source code. That is not a decision CentOS Linux makes.