Roger Dingledine schrieb: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:36:23PM +0100, Karsten Loesing wrote: >> On 2/16/10 6:17 PM, Olaf Selke wrote: >>> am I right the bridge relay config option "GeoIPFile" means the path to >>> GeoIP.dat provided by MaxMind? >> No. Tor can only handle the text-based ip-to-country database, but none >> of Maxmind's databases. You can the database that Tor understands in >> src/config/geoip in the sources: >> >> http://gitweb.torproject.org//tor.git?a=blob;f=src/config/geoip;h=31c721a9fe1d554e6a404b046eeaa4d83162f49b;hb=HEAD >> >> Or do you want to use Maxmind's database for some reason? If so, you can >> probably convert the text-based one (not .dat) easily. > > Tor actually understands several variants of geoip db format -- but all > ascii, none binary.
it might be a good idea to mention the supported geoip formats in the tor manual ;-) https://www.torproject.org/tor-manual.html @Karsten: So far I didn't try to understand tor's source code regarding bridges' geoip stuff. I supposed it to be MaxMind's format since it's used and proven to work by the well known tor network status web sites. > The free > maxmind one is intentionally crippled, which makes me not so optimistic > about its future. the free of charge MaxMind's db works perfectly to match the country. Determining state/region, city, US postal code, and so on requires the non crippled version. Olaf *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
